Talk:Otto Julius Klotz

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Discoverer of the Burgess Shale?
In Ben Gadd's book Handbook of the Canadian Rockies, he mentions a railway worker named Otto Klotz as being the person who originally discovered the world famous fossil beds of the Burgess Shale in British Columbia, Canada. It seems likely that this article is about the same Otto Klotz. Does anyone know for sure?

In the 1870s a railway surveyor/engineer named Otto Klotz discovered a sensational horde of fossils in this area, but word didn't reach the scientific community until Charles Walcott, a paleontologist with the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC, happened to notice the fossils while on a geological expedition in the area in 1909.

--Ae491 (talk) 06:02, 18 March 2009 (UTC)