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Misadventures in the Burgess Shale

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One hundred years after Charles Doolittle Walcott found a wealth of Cambrian fossils in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Desmond Collins reflects on the bumpy road of their classification.

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  1. Desmond Collins served as curator of invertebrate palaeontology and head of palaeobiology at the Royal Ontario Museum from 1968 to 2004. He is now retired. Suzanne.collins029@sympatico.ca ,

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Collins, D. Misadventures in the Burgess Shale. Nature 460, 952–953 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/460952a

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