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    Dickinsonia is a genus of extinct organism, most likely an animal, that lived during the late Ediacaran period in what is now Australia, China, Russia...
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    caves showing a man dancing and holding a trident-like staff Fossils of Dickinsonia tenuis, an early animal from the Ediacaran Period, were reported from...
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    phylum was established by Mikhail A. Fedonkin in 1985 for such animals as Dickinsonia, Vendia, Cephalonega, Praecambridium and currently many other Proarticulata...
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    animals, but the discovery of the animal lipid cholesterol in fossils of Dickinsonia establishes their nature. Animals are thought to have originated under...
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    confirmed that one of the period's most-prominent and iconic fossils, Dickinsonia, included cholesterol, suggesting affinities to animals, fungi, or red...
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    phyla such as Proarticulata (bilaterians with simple articulation, e.g. Dickinsonia and Spriggina), Petalonamae (sea pen-like animals, e.g. Charnia), Aspidella...
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    Shale Chengjiang Sirius Passet Doushantuo Key organisms Ediacaran biota Dickinsonia Kimberella Kimberichnus Vernanimalcula Burgess-type Marrella Radiodonts...
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    the fossils that Charnia must have lived around 565 million years ago. Dickinsonia fossils are another notable fossil from the Ediacaran period, found in...
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    genera Dickinsonia and probably Windermeria. Phyllozoon is associated with this family, and is thought to represent ichnofossils of Dickinsonia. Harrington...
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    earliest animals may belong to the genus Dickinsonia, 571 million to 539 million years ago. Individual Dickinsonia typically resemble a bilaterally symmetrical...
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    of Dickinsonia cast doubt on this identification, as these sterols are today associated only with animals. These researchers suggest that Dickinsonia and...
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  • Dickinsonia costata, an Ediacaran organism of unknown affinity, with a quilted appearance...
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    and digested with the ventral (abdominal) surface. Dickinsonia menneri Dickinsonia tenuis Dickinsonia costata Windermeria Paleontology portal Seilacher...
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    and spores. It has also been claimed that Ediacaran fossils including Dickinsonia, were lichens, although this claim is controversial. Endosymbiotic Glomeromycota...
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    to Labrador", regional anthem Dickinson College's alma mater, "Noble Dickinsonia," with words written by Horatio Collins King. The College of the Holy...
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    Dickinsonia, an enigmatic quilted organism with glide symmetry which may have been an early animal...
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    Dickinsonia, a proarticulate....
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    Shale Chengjiang Sirius Passet Doushantuo Key organisms Ediacaran biota Dickinsonia Kimberella Kimberichnus Vernanimalcula Burgess-type Marrella Radiodonts...
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    because of its morphological similarity with the iconic Ediacaran fossil Dickinsonia, and may have been a late surviving vendobiont. Rutgersella truexi is...
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    mechanical inflation for "pneu" structures in Ediacaran biota fossils such as Dickinsonia. Günter P. Wagner argued for developmental bias, structural constraints...
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    often found together with other species from the Ediacara biota, like Dickinsonia, Yorgia, Kimberella, Brachina, Parvancorina, Tribrachidium and others...
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    many soft-jellied creatures shaped like bags, disks, or quilts (like Dickinsonia). Simple trace fossils of possible worm-like Trichophycus, etc.Taconic...
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  • Dickinsonia, an organism of the Ediacaran Period that precedes the Cambrian, whose affinity is still unknown....
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    Dickinsonia costata, an Ediacaran organism of unknown affinity, with a quilted appearance...
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    Dickinsonia costata from the Ediacaran biota, 635–542 Ma, a possible early member of Animalia....
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    Upper Vindhyan rocks. A recent claim of the iconic Ediacaran fossil "Dickinsonia" located in the Upper Bhander (Retallack et al., 2021) required an Ediacaran...
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    animal fossils may belong to the genus Dickinsonia, 571 million to 541 million years ago. Individual Dickinsonia typically resemble a bilaterally symmetrical...
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    more in common with Dickinsonia brachina. Gehling (2006) noted that there is 'no evidence that Praecambridium is a juvenile Dickinsonia, Spriggina or Marywadea...
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    mineralized tubes that some secreted. Some Ediacaran fossils such as Dickinsonia in some ways resemble polychaetes, but the similarities are too vague...
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    although the Ediacaran biota (Precambrian, 550 million years ago) organism Dickinsonia appears somewhat similar to placozoans. Knaust (2021) reported preservation...
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