Jean-Bernard Caron
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Jean-Bernard Caron is a French and Canadian palaeontologist currently working as a curator of invertebrate palaeontology at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Caron is also cross-appointed at the Un
Jean-Bernard Caron in the field at the Burgess Shale
Pikaia
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Pikaia gracilens is an extinct, primitive chordate marine animal known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia. Described in 1911 by Charles Doolittle Walcott as an annelid, and in
Fossil of Pikaia gracilens (Syntype USNM PAL 57628)
Plate 20 of Walcott Cambrian Geology and Paleontology II (1911), by Charles Doolittle Walcott, showing fossils of Pikaia and Oesia