Qingjiang Archives - The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation One Of The World's Most Important Fossil Sites Fri, 12 Feb 2021 16:36:50 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/cropped-cropped-Adobe-Express-file-32x32.png Qingjiang Archives - The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation 32 32 Tropical Fossils: The Burgess Shale Is Not Alone! https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/tropical-fossils-the-burgess-shale-is-not-alone/ Sun, 15 Nov 2020 18:26:00 +0000 https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/?p=2422 Tropical Fossils? The Burgess Shale fossils are found in the Canadian Rockies at a latitude of 51 North. However, the fossilized animals lived and died in the tropics. This change in latitude over time is the result of the slow action of Plate Tectonics. For the last 508 Million years the North America plate has […]

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]]> Qingjiang biota: A Burgess Shale type deposit in China https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/qingjiang-biota/ Wed, 03 Apr 2019 20:55:14 +0000 https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/?p=2239 The Qingjiang biota, a newly discovered fossil site in China, is a treasure trove for paleontologists studying the Cambrian explosion, when life on Earth suddenly and massively expanded in diversity about 500 million years ago. More than 2,000 specimens were found at the 518 million-year-old site, and half of those specimens represent species of animals that […]

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