Abstract
The Phyllopod Bed of the Burgess Shale, in which Walcott found the famous soft bodied fossils, consists of thin graded beds of calcareous siltstone and mud-stone, which are probably turbidites. The Burgess Shale was deposited on a reef front submarine fan, and the preservation of the fossils is probably due to rapid burial.
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