Mount Stephen trilobite beds
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The Mount Stephen trilobite beds are a series of fossil strata on Mount Stephen, British Columbia that contain exceptionally preserved fossil material. Part of the same stratigraphic unit as the Burge
A high density of trilobites are present at the trilobite beds.
The trilobite beds
The view from the Mount Stephen trilobite beds, with anomalocaridid claws visible on a slab in the foreground, the Canadian Pacific Railway is visible in the distance.
Walcott Quarry
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The Walcott Quarry is the most famous quarry of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, located in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, bearing the Phyllopod beds. This lies at the base of the Walcott
Mount Stephen trilobite beds
…at that time as the bodies of crabs. These fossils prompted Charles Doolittle Walcott to make forays into the area, and led to his discovery of the Walcott Quarry on Fossil Ridge. The trilobite beds are in the Campsite Cliff member, and contain the marker trilobite Ogygopsis…
Walcott and his team collecting from the Phyllopod bed, c. 1913
Walcott talus