Cambrian

543-510 Ma

• General Info
• The Cambrian Period
• "Definition of the Cambrian Period"
• Cambrian Stratigraphy
• Cambrian Paleogeography
• The Origin of Animal Body Plans
• When Life Exploded
• Fossils & Localities
• Tommotian fauna
• Archeocyathids
• Archaeocyatha another example from this probable sponge group.
• Trilobites
• Olenellus
• Olenoides
• Brachiopods
• The Lingulata inarticulate brachiopod family, Lingula is a modern representative.
• The Orthida articulate brachiopod family that lived from the late Cabrian through the Permian.
• Aldan River, Siberia
• White-Inyo Mountains, CA
• The Burgess Shale
• Fossils of the Burgess Shale
• Hallucigenia
• Aysheaia
• Pikaia
• Wiwaxia
• Emu Bay Shale
• Anomalocaris
• Redlichia and other trilobites
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