Ediacaran

//ɛdiˈakəɹən//

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Dutch

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  • ediacarium name (Ediacaran period)

Esperanto

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  • ediakara adj (of a geologic period from about 620 to 542 million years ago)
  • ediakaro name (Ediacaran period)

Estonian

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  • ediacara name (Ediacaran period)

Finnish

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  • ediacarakautinen adj (of a geologic period from about 620 to 542 million years ago)
  • ediacarakausi name (Ediacaran period)

Greek

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  • Εδιακαρανική name (Ediacaran period)

Hungarian

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  • Ediakara adj (of a geologic period from about 620 to 542 million years ago)

Italian

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  • ediacarano adj (of a geologic period from about 620 to 542 million years ago)
  • ediacarano name (Ediacaran period)

Russian

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  • эдиакарский adj (of a geologic period from about 620 to 542 million years ago)

Spanish

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  • ediacárico adj (of a geologic period from about 620 to 542 million years ago)
  • ediacárico name (Ediacaran period)

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The widespread discoveries of fossil remains of Ediacaran aspect have generated continued excitement in respect of their possible evolutionary significance, and in terms of recent surrealistic interpretations of their morphology and inferred interrelationships (Pflug, 1970a,b, 1972a,b; Fedonkin, 1985 a,b; Gould, 1984, 1985; Seilacher, 1984, 1985, 1989; McMenamin, 1986; and Bergstrom, 1989, 1990), a reexamination of the actual fossil material is timely.

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Swartpuntia (frondlike metazoans) and Ernietta (ribbed saclike metazoans) are part of the Ediacaran fauna.

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Then in 1946, fossils of multicellular organisms were recovered from Vendian deposits around 570My old at the Ediacara copper mine in South Australia. Since then, geologists have found similar Ediacaran faunas in Precambrian rocks from other parts of the world as well.

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The creature, Yilingia spiciformis — named after the Yiling district in which it was discovered — was a complicated one by the standards of the Ediacaran Period: mobile, segmented, trilobate (each body segment composed of three lobes) and bilaterally symmetrical.

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