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

diverse community of previously unrecognized lifeforms (later named the Ediacaran biota) were first discovered by geologist Reg Sprigg in 1946. Its status...

This is a list of all described Ediacaran genera, including the Ediacaran biota. It contains 241 genera. Valid genus Junior synonym Vague status Rejected...

evidence of metazoan radiation are found in the Ediacaran period, which included the namesaked Ediacaran biota as well as the oldest definitive cnidarians...

539 million years ago. During the Ediacaran period, two main groups of organisms are found in the fossil record: the "Ediacaran biota" of soft-bodied organisms...

that made up of the majority of the organisms that were part of the Ediacaran biota. It is a hypothetical group and at the same time, it would be the oldest...

organisms such as sponges, algae, cnidarians, bilaterians and the sessile Ediacaran biota (some of which had evolved sexual reproduction) and provides the first...

algal nature of these organisms. Huainan biota do not contain jellyfish-like "discs" (as does the Ediacaran biota), nor any forms close to sponges which...

the late Ediacaran period in what is now Australia, China, Russia, and Ukraine. It is one of the best known members of the Ediacaran biota. The individual...

and date to between 635 and 542 Ma. These are referred to as Ediacaran or Vendian biota. Hard-shelled creatures appeared toward the end of that time span...

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...

Vickers-Rich, Patricia; Komarower, Patricia (eds.), The Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran Biota, Special publications, vol. 286, London: Geological Society, pp. 405–414...

(Petalonamae) are an extinct group of archaic animals typical of the Ediacaran biota, also called frondomorphs, dating from approximately 635 million years...

of the Ediacaran Biota. Geological Society of London. ISBN 9781862392335. Narbonne, G. M. (Aug 2004). "Modular Construction of Early Ediacaran Complex...

natural taxon called Insecta). Rangeomorphs are a key part of the Ediacaran biota, which survived about 30 million years, until the base of the Cambrian...

the Terminal Ediacaran biozone. The assemblage was characterized by a faunal turnover, with the decline of the preexisting White Sea biota. The drop of...

Cyclomedusa is a circular fossil of the Ediacaran biota; it has a circular bump in the middle and as many as five circular growth ridges around it. Many...

evidence of putative metazoan ancestors, as part of the Ediacaran biota. The division of the Ediacaran biota in three separate assemblages was first postulated...

in the deposits. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gabonionta. Ediacaran biota History of life Francevillian B Formation Franceville basin El Albani...

of the Neoproterozoic era, preceded by the Tonian and followed by the Ediacaran. The Cryogenian was a time of drastic climate changes. After the long...

the same layers as soft-bodied Ediacaran biota, but the fact that some sequences contain cloudinids and Ediacaran biota in alternating layers suggests...

reoxygenation of the atmosphere and may have contributed to the rise of the Ediacaran biota and the subsequent Cambrian explosion—a higher oxygen concentration...

shales also contain the slightly younger Guanshan biota from Malong District in Yunnan, Kaili biota and Balang fauna in Guizhou, Shipai fauna in Hubei...

Retrieved 9 June 2008. Vitae (BioLib) Wikispecies – a free directory of life Biota (Taxonomicon) (archived 15 July 2014) Entry on the Stanford Encyclopedia...

abnormality. The bed lies just below some of the oldest fossils of the Ediacaran biota, leading to early suggestions that the passing of the glaciation and...

Charnia is an extinct genus of frond-like lifeforms belonging to the Ediacaran biota with segmented, leaf-like ridges branching alternately to the right...

discoid fossil from the Ediacaran period containing the two species B. brunsae and B. minutae, sometimes ascribed to the Ediacaran Biota. The chemical signature...

Vickers-Rich, Patricia; Komarower, Patricia (eds.), The Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran Biota, Special publications, vol. 286, London: Geological Society, pp. 157–179...

He has contributed to the study of the Cambrian explosion and the Ediacaran biota. He is the author of several books, most recently Deep Time Analysis...

Primocandelabrum is a genus of rangeomorph known from the Avalon-type Ediacaran biota. It makes up the brunt of some bedding plane assemblages. Primocandelabrum...