Extraordinary fossils reveal the nature of Cambrian life: a commentary on Whittington (1975) 'The enigmatic animal Opabinia regalis, Middle Cambrian, Burgess Shale, British Columbia'

A primitive fish from the Cambrian of North America

(2014) Simon Conway Morris et al.   NATURE

Silurian horseshoe crab illuminates the evolution of arthropod limbs

(2012) D. E. G. Briggs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mechanism for Burgess Shale-type preservation

(2012) R. R. Gaines et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The lobes and lobopods of Opabinia regalis from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale

(2011) GRAHAM E. BUDD et al.   LETHAIA

Acute vision in the giant Cambrian predator Anomalocaris and the origin of compound eyes

(2011) John R. Paterson et al.   NATURE

The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

A new Burgess Shale–type assemblage from the “thin” Stephen Formation of the southern Canadian Rockies

(2010) Jean-Bernard Caron et al.   GEOLOGY

Harry Whittington (1916–2010)

(2010) Derek E. G. Briggs   NATURE

Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type

(2010) Peter Van Roy et al.   NATURE

The Burgess Shale Anomalocaridid Hurdia and Its Significance for Early Euarthropod Evolution

(2009) A. C. Daley et al.   SCIENCE

Cambrian Burgess Shale–type deposits share a common mode of fossilization

(2008) Robert R. Gaines et al.   GEOLOGY