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The 50 pages that link to Burgess Shale, each with the reason it gives.

• FossilBroader topic: Its soft-bodied fossils reveal anatomical diversity rarely preserved in ordinary deposits.

• PaleontologyBroader topic: Its soft-bodied fossils preserve forms rarely represented in the fossil record.

• TaphonomyBroader topic: Its fossils show how unusual conditions can preserve tissues normally lost to decay.

• Cambrian explosionBroader topic: Its fossils preserve an unusually broad array of Cambrian animal anatomies.

• PaleoecologyBroader topic: Its diverse fossils reveal an ancient marine community and its ecological structure.

• PaleobiologyBroader topic: Its fossils preserve anatomical detail rarely found in ordinary deposits.

• LagerstätteBroader topic: Its diverse soft-bodied fossils exemplify exceptional preservation in a marine setting.

• CambrianBroader topic: Its soft-bodied fossils exposed a diversity of Cambrian animals absent from many other deposits.

• Stephen Jay GouldBroader topic: Gould’s account of its fossils made the site central to debates about early animal diversity and contingency.

• TrilobiteBroader topic: Its trilobites and other fossils preserve details rarely captured in ordinary deposits.

• PaleoenvironmentBroader topic: Its fossils preserve a diverse marine community and evidence of its depositional setting.

• MudstoneBroader topic: Its fossil-bearing strata include fine-grained mudstones that preserved delicate organisms.

• PriapulidaBroader topic: Its fossils include Ottoia, a key priapulid-like animal from the Cambrian.

• History of paleontologyBroader topic: Its fossils reshaped debates over early animal diversity and the history of paleontological interpretation.

• RadiodontaBroader topic: Its fossils preserve radiodont bodies and appendages in detail.

• Canadian RockiesBroader topic: Its marine fossils record life preserved in rocks later incorporated into the mountains.

• WiwaxiaBroader topic: Its fossils provide the best-known record of Wiwaxia.