Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the final geologic period of the late Precambrian Era, lasting from 620 to 542 million years ago.
- adjective Of or relating to a group of fossilized soft-bodied marine organisms that are the earliest known remains of multicellular life and date from between 560 and 542 million years ago.
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- adjective geology Of a
geologic period within theNeoproterozoic era from about 620 to 542 million years ago. - noun geology The Ediacaran period.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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In the era preceding the Cambrian known as the Ediacaran (635-542 MYA), bizarre multicellular creatures roamed the planet with body plans that have no apparent relationship to Cambrian forms.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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The tracks were made during what is called the Ediacaran period, which preceded the Cambrian period, the time when most major groups of animals first evolved.
Slice of SciFi 2008
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Just came across this article on an anigmatic new taxon from the Ediacaran, reporting the discovery of the eight-armed organism Eoandromeda octobrachiata from China and Australia.
"I don't sleep. I dream." greygirlbeast 2008
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Pretty standard fare up to about halfway through the film overview of Cambrian deposits, Walcott and the Ediacaran fauna, etc. then the typical creationist stuff kicks in.
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(In fact Iâve read an article some time ago about the so called Ediacaran explosion.)
Continuation… 2008
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If there was a plan, does that mean Ediacaran fauna, Tiktaalik, Cynodonts, feathered dinosaurs, and millions of other extinct species were rough drafts thrown away by an error-prone designer?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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The tracks — two parallel rows of small dots, each about 2 millimeters in diameter — date back some 570 million years, to the Ediacaran period.
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The tracks — two parallel rows of small dots, each about 2 millimeters in diameter — date back some 570 million years, to the Ediacaran period.
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Start here for an overview, including a brief description of Precambrian fossil assemblages like the Ediacaran fauna.
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Because of the fine level of detail in many Ediacaran deposits all sorts of small squashy beasties turn up.
Steve Steve and end of the Cambrian Explosion as we know it (part 1) - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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