Yesterday’s adventure was the #burgessshale! About a 7 hour steep hike with lots of security cameras and scary signs protecting the fossils from poachers… but totally worth to see how happy jr. was ❤️

If you’re lucky enough to do this hike I cannot recommend our guide, David Moore enough! At lunch we received a lecture of a lifetime what life in the Cambarian period was like, with gusto and humour while being so very encouraging and attentive to our young palaeontologist.

#fossils #cambarian

RT @trichodes
The #BurgessShale Cambrian bivalved arthropods from my PhD at the at @ROMtoronto and @eebtoronto.
Clockwise
Tuzoia burgessensis. Art Brittany Cheung
Fibulacaris nereidis, Art @MesozoicMuse
Balhuticaris voltae, Art @metazoastudio
Pakucaris apatis, Art @MesozoicMuse

Trilobites from the Mount Stephen UNESCO World Heritage Site, part of the mid-Cambrian (510-505 Ma) Burgess Shale. Photos are all you can take!
#FossilFriday #BurgessShale #Trilobite

A wee beastie from my #FractalArchive. I imagine it as a wild arthropod or spiny trilobite, maybe a cousin to one of the improbable creatures whose fossils inhabit the #BurgessShale -- a bristleworm, perhaps, or Hallucigenia curled up with her babies.

Occasionally I browse photos and animations of the Burgess Shale fossils, on the lookout for ancient analogue relatives of this preposterous digital creature.
https://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/main-gallery/

Created in #Apophysis.#Fractal #Fractals #FractalArt

#BurgessShale
Look how beautiful the preservation of this 505 million-year-old fossil is !
https://twitter.com/PlLife2/status/1613959135917113360

#introduction round 2. I am a paleoecologist taking a break after burning myself out. I, when not sitting on a hill indefinitely, conduct research on #burgessshale preservation, #paleozoic #foraminifera in basin deposits, experiment with S.pastieri as an #MICP source for non-hydraulic cement, and #cretaceous #methaneseep assemblages in the #WIS.

But lately I have been making soap and salves and am considering driving around in a devked out caravan like a snake oil salesperson.

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 12
#MarineLifeMonday

#BritishColumbia's 🇨🇦 #BurgessShale is one of our planet's most important important (and beautiful) #fossil sites. Sitting high in #BC's #RockyMountains, it's a window into the early evolution of #animals. Among its weird wonders is Hallucigenia (seen here in fossil and sculpture form at the #RoyalOntarioMuseum), a distant relative of #arthropods so unlike anything alive today that for years it was reconstructed upside down and backwards.

#paleontology #radiodonts #Cambrian #BurgessShale #Titanokorys #TitanokorysGainesi An article published in the journal “Royal Society Open Science” reports the identification of a new species of radiodont that was named Titanokorys gainesi dating back to about half a billion years ago thanks to #fossils discovered in the famous Burgess Shale.
https://english.netmassimo.com/2021/09/10/titanokorys-gainesi-was-a-marine-predator-that-was-a-giant-by-the-standards-of-half-a-billion-years-ago/