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
Walcott and his team collecting from the Phyllopod bed, c. 1913
Walcott talus
Phyllopod bed
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The Phyllopod bed, designated by USNM locality number 35k, is the most famous fossil-bearing member of the Burgess Shale fossil Lagerstätte. It was quarried by Charles Walcott from 1911 to 1917 and wa
Walcott Quarry
…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 Quarry member, on a ridge between Wapta Mountain and Mount Field, and three other quarries – the Raymond, UE and…
Fossil Ridge forms the spectacular backdrop to the Phyllopod bed.
A page of Walcott's field notebook, depicting some familiar fossils from the Phyllopod bed