Charles Doolittle Walcott discovers the Burgess Shale Cambrian fossil site

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The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

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Palaeontology and fossils

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Date of occurrence 1909

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United States (Location)

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Charles Doolittle Walcott (31st March, 1850 - 9th February, 1927) was an American paleontologist. In 1909 he discovered the well-preserved Burgess Shale fossil site in British Columbia, Canada. Walcott collected more than 65,000 specimens from the site between 1910 and 1924.

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