Marble Canyon Canada Fossils

I stopped here on september 24 2020.

Marble canyon canada fossils.

If you re driving along highway 93s and need to stretch your legs this is a great place to stop. Amazing marble canyon fossil site a new fossil site considered equal in importance to the famed burgess shale of b c s yoho national park has been discovered in nearby kootenay national park. The new fossils were spotted in a mountain cliff in marble canyon about 26 miles 42 kilometers southeast of the original burgess shale site. The exact location of our fossil site near marble canyon has been kept secret so that parks canada can protect it.

Marble canyon is a beautiful place to visit in kootenay. Splendid find image credit. Researchers hope to protect the exact location to. Researchers have said the area and its fossils are furthering the understanding of animal life during the cambrian period when most major groups of animals appear on the fossil record.

Information panel about the geology of the area for visitors to the. Researchers hope to protect the exact location to. Marble canyon campground s close proximity to banff and yoho national parks makes day hikes on the iceline taylor lake bourgeau lake and twin lakes trails. Tokumm creek joins vermillion river through a magnificent gorge or box canyon so narrow that at several places the.

South of marble canyon on highyway 93 is numa falls on the vermillion river. While our fossil site is of approximately of the same age as the rocks at marble canyon the fossils are from siliclastic shales a different type of rock. There was a 1 5 km looped trail leading alongside the canyon and over a series of foot bridges with some inclines on the way up but still an easy trail. The fossil of a four eyed arthropod called leanchoilid from canada s marble canyon is also found in cambrian age rock in china.

Robert gaines a marrella splendens. Marble canyon is a canyon surrounding tokumm creek just above its confluence with the vermilion river at the north end of kootenay national park in the canadian rockies of british columbia canada. The marble canyon fossil site home to more than a dozen new species was found by researchers in 2012 as they worked at the nearby stanley glacier.