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What led scientists to date the burgess shale fossils to the Cambrian explosion

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Burgess Shale has the best record we have of Cambrian animal fossils. The locality reveals the presence of creatures originating from the Cambrian explosion, an evolutionary burst of animal origins dating 545 to 525 million years ago. During this period, life was restricted to the world's oceans.

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