A diverse array of animals was found in fossils from the Burgess Shale site in British Columbia, dating from the Cambrian period of the Phanerozoic eon.

They include:

Pikaia (swimming eel-like chordate)

Hallucigenia (with toothpick-like spikes on seafloor

Anomalocaris (large predator with hooked claws)

Marella (arthropod swimming at left)

Ottoia (burrowing U-shaped worm) 7