I’m honestly not sure how famous the Fernie ammonite fossil is outside my own little bubble, but at least in southern Alberta and southern BC it is quite well known. One of the largest known ammonite fossils in the world, this beauty is found in the mountains east of Fernie, British Columbia. Online resources show … Read more
Yoho National Park has long claimed all the Burgess Shale fame. That changed in 2012, when new fossil beds were discovered in Kootenay National Park near Marble Canyon. You cannot access this latest find, yet, but nearby Stanley Glacier offers a worthy consolation in the meantime. Unlike the Walcott Quarry and Mount Stephen Trilobite Beds … Read more
The Burgess Shale is known the world over for the amazing middle Cambrian lifeforms preserved within its beds. What’s less well known is that there is more to the Burgess Shale than Walcott Quarry. In fact, Walcott Quarry wasn’t even the first fossil discovery site. That was the Mount Stephen Trilobite Beds. Now part of … Read more
The Burgess Shale is easily the most famous geological formation in Canada, perhaps the world. It’s a name even the least geologically inclined person has heard. The fossils found within this Lagerstätte (specifically in the Stephen Formation) are renowned for the soft-bodied preservation of middle Cambrian lifeforms. They were first recovered from Walcott Quarry. The … Read more