• The Phyllopod bed, designated by USNM locality number 35k, is the most famous fossil-bearing member of the Burgess Shale fossil Lagerstätte. It was quarried...
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    famous being the Walcott Quarry Shale Member comprising the greater phyllopod bed. There are many other comparable Cambrian lagerstätten; indeed such...
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    28 mm in diameter. 127 specimens of Choia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.2% of the community. Botting, J. (2007). "'Cambrian'...
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    been collected. 5028 specimens of Marrella are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 9.56% of the community. A few dozen specimens of...
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    Columbia, Canada. 109 specimens of Hallucigenia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.3% of the community. Hallucigenia also forms...
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  • briefly excavated another quarry about 20 metres (66 ft) above Walcott's "Phyllopod bed", there was very little interest in the Burgess Shale fossils from the...
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    its large head. 108 specimens of Peytoia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.21% of the community. Peytoia nathorsti and its...
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    anostracan crustacean. 711 specimens of Yohoia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 1.35% of the community. In 2015, Conway Morris...
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    Doolittle Walcott. 198 specimens of Pirania are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.38% of the community. Botting, J. P. (2007)....
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    Canada. Fifty-four specimens of Habelia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.1% of the community. The body is divided into...
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