Branchiocaris - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Branchiocaris is a Cambrian organism known from Burgess shale

Burgess Shale

The Burgess Shale Formation, located in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, is one of the world's most celebrated fossil fields, and the best of its kind. It is famous for the exceptional preservation of the soft parts of its fossils...

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Curiosities

This fossil appears on tv show 'The Simpsons', chapter: 'Lisa, the skeptic', behind the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould (Wonderful Life's author).

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