Ejemplares de la Phyllopod Bed-Burgess Shale (Cámbrico Medio) en el Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC (Madrid, Espana)

Resumen

A collection of fossil invertebrates from well-known North American sites is hosted at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC (MNCN-CSIC) of Madrid. This collection was a result of an exchange between this Institution and the Smithsonian Institution of Washington in the sixties of this century. In this collection there are eigth items from the Walcott's Quarry site of the Burgess Shale (British Columbia, Canada). It consists of twelve specimens included in the Kingdom Monera (one phylum) and Kingdom Animalia (six phyla).