搜尋結果
Burgess Shale
- IPA[ˈbərjis ˌSHāl]
美式
- a bed of shale exposed in the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia, Canada. The bed, dated to the Cambrian period (about 530 million years ago), is rich in well-preserved fossils of early marine invertebrates, many of which represent evolutionary lineages unknown in later times.