5/30/2023 0 Comments Stephen jay gould burgess shale![]() Above Sidneyia, the largest animal of the scene, Waptia is reconstructed as a shrimp. All the animals are drawn as members of modern groups. ![]() Knight in 1940, probably the model for his 1942 restoration. Reconstruction of the Burgess Shale fauna done by Charles R. ![]() The Burgess Shale includes, for example, early representatives of all four major kinds of arthropods, the dominant animals on earth today-the trilobites (now extinct), the crustaceans (including lobsters, crabs, and shrimp), the chelicerates (including spiders and scorpions), and the uniramians (including insects).ġ.1. For species that can be classified within known phyla, Burgess anatomy far exceeds the modern range. Magnify some of them beyond the few centimeters of their actual size, and you are on the set of a science-fiction film one particularly arresting creature has been formally named Hallucigenia. ![]() Why is Opabinia, key animal in a new view of life, not a household name in all domiciles that care about the riddles of existence? In short, Harry Whittington and his colleagues have shown that most Burgess organisms do not belong to familiar groups, and that the creatures from this single quarry in British Columbia probably exceed, in anatomical range, the entire spectrum of invertebrate life in today's oceans. Some fifteen to twenty Burgess species cannot be allied with any known group, and should probably be classified as separate phyla. ![]()
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