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41 relations: Aliphatic compound, British Columbia, Burgess Shale, Burgess Shale type fauna, Burgessia, Cambrian, Cambrian explosion, Cambrian substrate revolution, Chaeta, Charles Doolittle Walcott, Chengjiang County, Chitin, Collagen, Continental margin, Cryogenian, Ctenophora, Dark stain, Debris flow, Ediacaran, Framboid, Greenschist, Illite, Kaolinite, Kerogen, Lipid, Maotianshan Shales, Megabias, Ordovician, Phosphatic fossilization, Precambrian, Proterozoic, Riphean (stage), Royal Ontario Museum, Sedimentary basin, Sirius Passet, Snowball Earth, Taphonomy, Tonian, Trilobite, Turbidity current, Wheeler Shale.
Aliphatic compound
In organic chemistry, hydrocarbons (compounds composed of carbon and hydrogen) are divided into two classes: aromatic compounds and aliphatic compounds (G. aleiphar, fat, oil) also known as non-aromatic compounds.
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British Columbia
British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.
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Burgess Shale
The Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada.
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Burgess Shale type fauna
A number of assemblages bear fossil assemblages similar in character to that of the Burgess Shale.
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Burgessia
Burgessia is an extinct genus of arthropod from the Middle Cambrian.
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Cambrian
The Cambrian Period was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon.
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Cambrian explosion
The Cambrian explosion or Cambrian radiation was an event approximately in the Cambrian period when most major animal phyla appeared in the fossil record.
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Cambrian substrate revolution
The "Cambrian substrate revolution" or "Agronomic revolution",Seilacher and Pflüger, 1994 Seilacher, A., Pflüger, F., 1994.
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Chaeta
A chaeta or cheta (see spelling differences) is a chitinous bristle or seta found on an insect, arthropod or annelid worms such as the earthworm, although the term is also frequently used to describe similar structures in other invertebrates.
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Charles Doolittle Walcott
Charles Doolittle Walcott (March 31, 1850 – February 9, 1927) was an American paleontologist, administrator of the Smithsonian Institution from 1907 to 1927, and geologist.
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Chengjiang County
Chengjiang County (Chinese: officially 澂江县; often spelled 澄江县;; earlier Tchinkiang) is in Yuxi, Yunnan Province, China, just north of Fuxian Lake.
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Chitin
Chitin (C8H13O5N)n, a long-chain polymer of ''N''-acetylglucosamine, is a derivative of glucose.
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Collagen
Collagen is the main structural protein in the extracellular space in the various connective tissues in animal bodies.
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Continental margin
The continental margin is one of the three major zones of the ocean floor, the other two being deep-ocean basins and mid-ocean ridges.
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Cryogenian
The Cryogenian (from Greek κρύος (krýos), meaning "cold" and γένεσις (génesis), meaning "birth") is a geologic period that lasted from.
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Ctenophora
Ctenophora (singular ctenophore, or; from the Greek κτείς kteis 'comb' and φέρω pherō 'to carry'; commonly known as comb jellies) is a phylum of invertebrate animals that live in marine waters worldwide.
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Dark stain
A dark stain is often associated with fossils of the Burgess Shale, representing decay fluids that were squashed out of the organism during the taphonomic process.
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Debris flow
Debris flows are geological phenomena in which water-laden masses of soil and fragmented rock rush down mountainsides, funnel into stream channels, entrain objects in their paths, and form thick, muddy deposits on valley floors.
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Ediacaran
The Ediacaran Period, spans 94 million years from the end of the Cryogenian Period 635 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Cambrian Period 541 Mya.
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Framboid
The term framboid describes a micromorphological feature common to certain sedimentary minerals, particularly pyrite (FeS2).
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Greenschist
Greenschists are metamorphic rocks that formed under the lowest temperatures and pressures usually produced by regional metamorphism, typically and 2–10 kilobars.
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Illite
Illite is a group of closely related non-expanding clay minerals.
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Kaolinite
Kaolinite is a clay mineral, part of the group of industrial minerals, with the chemical composition Al2Si2O5(OH)4.
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Kerogen
Kerogen is a solid organic matter in sedimentary rocks.
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Lipid
In biology and biochemistry, a lipid is a biomolecule that is soluble in nonpolar solvents.
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Maotianshan Shales
The Maotianshan Shales are a series of Early Cambrian deposits in the Chiungchussu Formation, famous for their Konservat Lagerstätten, deposits known for the exceptional preservation of fossilized organisms or traces.
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Megabias
A megabias, or a taphonomic megabias is a large scale pattern in the quality of the fossil record that affects paleobiologic analysis at provincial to global levels and at timescales usually exceeding ten million years.
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Ordovician
The Ordovician is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era.
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Phosphatic fossilization
Phosphatic fossilization has occurred in unusual circumstances to preserve some extremely high-resolution microfossils in which careful preparation can even reveal preserved cellular structures.
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Precambrian
The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pЄ, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon.
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Proterozoic
The Proterozoic is a geological eon representing the time just before the proliferation of complex life on Earth.
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Riphean (stage)
The Riphean is a stage or age of the geologic timescale from.
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Royal Ontario Museum
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM, Musée royal de l'Ontario) is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Sedimentary basin
Sedimentary basins are regions of Earth of long-term subsidence creating accommodation space for infilling by sediments.
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Sirius Passet
Sirius Passet is a Cambrian Lagerstätte in Greenland.
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Snowball Earth
The Snowball Earth hypothesis proposes that Earth surface's became entirely or nearly entirely frozen at least once, sometime earlier than 650 Mya (million years ago).
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Taphonomy
Taphonomy is the study of how organisms decay and become fossilized.
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Tonian
The Tonian (from Greek τόνος (tónos), meaning "stretch") is the first geologic period of the Neoproterozoic Era.
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Trilobite
Trilobites (meaning "three lobes") are a fossil group of extinct marine arachnomorph arthropods that form the class Trilobita.
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Turbidity current
A turbidity current is most typically an underwater current of usually rapidly moving, sediment-laden water moving down a slope.
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Wheeler Shale
The Wheeler Shale (named by Charles Walcott) is a Cambrian (''c.'' 507 Ma) fossil locality world famous for prolific agnostid and Elrathia kingii trilobite remains (even though many areas are barren of fossils) and represents a Konzentrat-Lagerstätten.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgess_Shale_type_preservation
