Burgess Shale Online Resources:
Adult-level Content:
University of Calgary
http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~macrae/Burgess_Shale/
Detailed information on all aspects of the Burgess Shale. Photos of many of the
fossils. Also includes a reference and links to other web sites.
National Museum of Natural History-Smithsonian
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/shale/index.html
The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
http://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/menu.htm
The most detailed site about the Burgess Shale, with information on history, how
to see the area and photos.
Books:
The Fossils of the Burgess Shale
by Derek E. G. Briggs, Douglas H. Erwin, and Frederick J. Collier, 1995
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
by Stephen Jay Gould, 1990
The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals
by Simon Conway Morris, 1999
Additional Resources:
The Smithsonian Institution
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/shale/pfoslidx.htm
Great basic information with an excellent section on individual species in
the Burgess Shale.
National Parks Canada
http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/bc/yoho/natcul/natcul15_E.asp
Basic information about the Burgess Shale including how to visit the site.
Peripatus History of Life
http://www.peripatus.gen.nz/Paleontology/MaiLinEvo.html
Traces the history of life at a somewhat academic level. Has good links
with detailed information about many aspects of evolution, Cambrian explosion,
Burgess Shale, and other Burgess Shale age and type sites.
International Subcommission on Cambrian Stratigraphy
http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/palaeontologie/Stuff/casu9.htm