Ediacaran
Britishadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of Ediacaran
C20: named after the Ediacara Hills in the Flinders mountain range in South Australia
Example Sentences
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These durable elements fossilize well and appear in rocks dating back about 543 million years to the late Ediacaran Period.
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The rocks dated to the Ediacaran Period, which lasted from about 635 million to 541 million years ago, just before the Cambrian Period when complex multicellular life rapidly diversified.
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As in their previous investigations, the researchers examined Ediacaran age rocks collected from drill cores and outcrops in Oman, western India, and Siberia.
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So far, the samples indicate that these sponges lived during the Ediacaran Period.
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Yet roughly 570 million years ago, during a chapter of Earth history known as the Ediacaran period, something remarkable happened.
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