Burgess Shale-type deposits are critical to our understanding of the Cambrian diversity explosion. Here, Caron et al.report a new assemblage from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, British Columbia, with high diversity and abundance of soft-bodied taxa, providing new insights into the early diversification of metazoans.
- Jean-Bernard Caron
- Robert R. Gaines
- Michael Streng