There is no such thing as the ‘Ediacara Biota’

The term ‘Ediacara Biota’ (or many variants thereof) is commonly used to refer to certain megascopic fossils of Precambrian and early Palaeozoic age – but what does the term actually mean? What differentiates a non-Ediacaran ‘Ediacaran’ and an Ediacaran ‘Ediacaran’ from an Ediacaran non-‘Ediacaran’?...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Breandán Anraoi MacGabhann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-01-01
Series:Geoscience Frontiers
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987113001096