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Ediacaran type preservation information


Ediacaran type preservation relates to the dominant preservational mode in the Ediacaran period, where Ediacaran organisms were preserved as casts on the surface of microbial mats.

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Ediacaran type preservation

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Ediacaran type preservation relates to the dominant preservational mode in the Ediacaran period, where Ediacaran organisms were preserved as casts on the...

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Ediacaran biota

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The Ediacaran (/ˌiːdiˈækərən/; formerly Vendian) biota is a taxonomic period classification that consists of all life forms that were present on Earth...

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Doushantuo type preservation

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166–177. doi:10.1093/icb/43.1.166. PMID 21680421. Doushantuo-type microfossils from latest Ediacaran phosphorites of northern Mongolia Doushantuo embryos preserved...

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Taphonomy

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Trilobite type preservation Bitter Springs type preservation Burgess Shale type preservation Doushantuo type preservation Ediacaran type preservation Fossil...

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Protonympha

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lacks a segmented carapace or stereom. Its preservation in sandstone is similar to Ediacaran type preservations. A less-accepted hypothesis claims the organisms...

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Microbial mat

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Biological soil crust Cambrian substrate revolution Cyanobacteria Ediacaran type preservation Evolutionary history of life Sippewissett Microbial Mat Schieber...

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Erytholus

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associated vertical tubular structures. Its preservation in sandstone is similar to the Ediacaran type preservation of the vendobiont Ventogyrus. It is found...

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Neoproterozoic

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Xiao, Shuhai (September 2015). "Fossil preservation through phosphatization and silicification in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (South China): a comparative...

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Cambrian explosion

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explosion represents a real diversification, and is not a preservational artifact. The first Ediacaran and lowest Cambrian (Nemakit-Daldynian) skeletal fossils...

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Eoandromeda

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is an Ediacaran organism consisting of eight radial spiral arms, and known from two taphonomic modes: the standard Ediacara type preservation in Australia...

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Doushantuo Formation

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given their name to "Doushantuo type preservation". The formation, whose deposits date back to the Early and Middle Ediacaran, is of particular interest because...

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Cambrian

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The Cambrian lasted 53.4 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran period 538.8 Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Ordovician...

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Hapsidophyllas

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Hapsidophyllas is a rare Ediacaran rangeomorph fossil found at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, Canada. It was first identified by Emily Bamforth and Guy...

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Ausia fenestrata

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Ausia fenestrata is a curious Ediacaran period (635 – 539 million years ago) fossil represented by only one specimen 5 cm long from the Nama Group, a...

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List of Ediacaran genera

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This is a list of all described Ediacaran genera, including the Ediacaran biota. It contains 237 genera. Valid genus Junior synonym Vague status Rejected...

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Ikaria wariootia

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and 555 million years old. A representative of the Ediacaran biota, Ikaria lived during the Ediacaran period, roughly 15 million years before the Cambrian...

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Reticulosa

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the late Ediacaran (~555 Ma), was originally described as a reticulosan based on its mesh-like surface texture. Ediacaran-type preservation has obscured...

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Vendobionta

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influenced the popular name of "The garden of Ediacara". The Ediacarans' abundant preservation is surprising, despite having soft bodies; this nearly surely...

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2024 in paleontology

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Demoulin et al. (2024). A study comparing the preservation of fossils of cyanobacterial assemblages from the Ediacaran Gaojiashan biota and from the Cambrian...

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Rangea

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Rangea is a frond-like Ediacaran fossil with six-fold radial symmetry. It is the type genus of the rangeomorphs. Rangea was the first complex Precambrian...

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Ernietta

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Ernietta is an extinct genus of Ediacaran organisms with an infaunal lifestyle. Fossil preservations and modeling indicate this organism was sessile and...

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Nama Group

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deposited in a storm-dominated ramp setting. "Nama-type preservation" is an Ediacaran type preservation that presents sandstone castings of fossil creatures...

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Aspidella

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is also a homonym for the mushroom genus Saproamanita. Aspidella is an Ediacaran disk-shaped fossil of uncertain affinity. It is known from the single...

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Small shelly fauna

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covered quickly with phosphate and this method of preservation is mainly limited to the late Ediacaran and early Cambrian periods, the animals that made...

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Phosphatization

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lagerstätte of the Ediacaran period, about 590–565 Ma (megaannua; million years ago), display some of the most spectacular cellular-level preservation known from...

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Kimberella

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Kimberella is an extinct genus of bilaterian known only from rocks of the Ediacaran period. The slug-like organism fed by scratching the microbial surface...

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Trace fossil

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The first evidence of burrowing which is widely accepted dates to the Ediacaran (Vendian) period, around 560 million years ago. During this period the...

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