Cambrian Collection

Cambrian Coast Express
The Cambrian Coast Express steam locomotive train, at Llanbadarn crossing, near Aberystwyth, Wales

Cambrian Colliery, Clydach Vale, Glamorgan
Cambrian Colliery, Clydach Vale, Tonypandy, near Porth, Glamorgan, Wales. Date: 1905

BAC 1-11-416EK G-AVOE
British Aircraft Corporation One-Eleven-416EK G-AVOE (msn 129), of Cambrian Airways, at Liverpool-Speke Airport in August 1970. Date: 1970

Vickers Viscount 806 G-AOYG (msn 256), of Cambrian Airways, at Liverpool-Speke Airport in July 1972. Date: 1972

Vickers Viscount 701 G-AMOG (msn 7), of Cambrian Airways, at Blackpool-Squire's Gate Airport in June 1970. Date: 1970

Vickers Viscount 806 G-AOYN (msn 263), of Cambrian Airways, at Liverpool-Speke Airport in July 1972. Date: 1978

Reconstruction of the rich marine life of the Cambrian era. Extinct crinoids, jellyfish, coral and horseshoe crabs. Illustration by Hugo Wolff-Maage from Wilhelm Bolsches Das Leben der Urwelt

Reconstruction of extinct synapsid dinosaur Dimetrodon
Reconstruction of an extinct synapsid dinosaur Dimetrodon, Cisuralian (Early Permian), North America, 3m. Illustration by Hugo Wolff-Maage from Wilhelm Bolsches Das Leben der Urwelt

RICHARD ROBERTS (JONES) eccentric, known as the Cambrian Linguist. Date: 1780 - 1843

Communications / Writing
THOMAS EDWARDS aka Twm o r Nant Welsh Antiquary and poet known as the Cambrian Shakespeare Date: 1738 - 1810

Castericystis vali, a fossil Carpoid
Castericystis vali, 7 cm long with juvenile 0.8 cm long attached at the bottom of the stele, from the Middle Cambrian of Utah

Douglas DC-3 G-AGHM Cambrian Le Bourget 1963
Douglas DC-3 G-AGHM of Cambrian Airways loading at Le Bourget in June 1963 Date: 1963

Trilobites, fossil group of extinct marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita.. They existed from the early Cambrian to the Permian era

HMS Cambrian and USAT Logan, Honolulu, Hawaii
HMS Cambrian (left), British protected cruiser, and USAT Logan (right, formerly USAT Manitoba), American Army Transport ship, which had run aground in Honolulu Harbour, Hawaii. Date: 1909

Cambrian trilobites from the Falkland Islands
Trilobites from a cobble of archaeocyathan limestone from Port Purvis: PS 218, specimen number NHM PI PO 12074 in the collection of the Palaeontological Department of The Natural History Museum

Hallucigenia sparsa, velvet worm
A velvet worm fossil from the Middle Cambrian, Burgess Shale, British Columbia

Anomalocaris model
Model of the swimming predator Anomalocaris based on fossils from the Cambrian Burgess Shale, 520 million years old

Burgessia bella, fossil arthropod
An arthropod fossil which lived on the sea floor, dating from the Middle Cambrian, Burgess Shale, British Columbia

Hurdia victoria, ancient fossil
This fossil dates from the Middle Cambrian rocks of the Burgess Shale, British Columbia

Agnostid trilobite of Cambrian age, found in deep water. It is a blind trilobite of only a few millimetres long, with only two thoracic segments

Metaldetes
A small block of limestone, 5 cm across, from the Cambrian of South Australia, containing sectioned specimens of the archaeocyathan sponge Metaldetes

Elrathia kingii, trilobites
Elrathia kingii in rock matrix, from Middle Cambrian, Wheeler Shale, House Range, Utah, USA

Wanneria walcottana, trilobite

Oldest rocks on Earth

Biceratops, trilobite
Biceratops, a Cambrian trilobite. Trilobites had a carapace, or shell was divided into three parts. Trilobites were arthropods as crustaceans, spiders and insects are today

Marrella splendens, lace crab
This is a small, aquatic arthropod originating from the Burgess Shale in Canada dating from the Middle Cambrian

Anomalocaris canadensis
Reconstruction of a 520 million year old predatory marine species from the Middle Cambrian, Burgess Shale in British Columbia, Canada

Slate
Cambrian slate from North Wales. Slate is metamorphosed shale

Hyolithes, primitive mollusc
Shown here is Hyolithes, a Cambrian primitive mollusc. Hyolithes had an oval or cone-shaped, elongated shell and often occured in clusters along bedding planes of Cambrian shale

Dictyonema, graptolite
Shown here is Dictyonema, a Cambrian dendroid graptolite. Graptolites are the fossil remains of small colonial animals. Graptolite colonies were connected together by living tissue

Quartzite

Marpolia spissa, fossilised algae
A fossilised type of green algae, possible filamentous cyanobacteria (Marpolia spissa), approximately 12 mm in height. This specimen was discovered in the Middle Cambrian, Burgess Shale, Canada

Monastery of St Bernard, Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire
Sketch of the Monastery of St Bernard, Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell

Hywel, Welsh Prince
HYWEL DDA, the Good : Cambrian prince, depicted in robes of state as worn in the hall of judgment. He visited Rome to consult jurists about the laws of his kingdom. Date: flourished 940

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