Website review: Vendian Animals
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•6 reviews since Jun 21, 2002
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•ucmp.berkeley.edu/vendian/critters.html
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11saga11 rated 8 weeks ago- Learning About the Vendian Animals What was life like 560 million years ago? The Vendian marks the first appearance of a group of large fossils collectively known as the "Vendian biota" or "Ediacara fauna." The question of what these fossils are is still not settled to everyone's satisfaction; at various times they have been considered algae, lichens, giant protozoans, or even a separate kingdom of life unrelated to anything living today. Some of these fossils are simple blobs that are hard to interpret and could represent almost anything. Some are most like cnidarians, worms, or soft-bodied relatives of the arthropods. Others are less easy to interpret and may belong to extinct phyla. But besides the fossils of soft bodies, Vendian rocks contain trace fossils, probably made by wormlike animals slithering over mud.
- garathane rated 25 months ago
- Very interesting and educational. A bit tough sometimes to understand (for a foreigner)
- duskwynd rated 29 months ago
- Some wonderful information here.
- pyrophage rated 33 months ago
- I know it's impossible (or rather, infinitely improbable) but.... the pic at the bottom looks like it has a notorchord Nice site!
- wakka rated 46 months ago
- This period has now been named the "Ediacaran" era, the first statigraphically defined new geological time period to be approved since 1891, after the location of many of the strange aesthetic patterns left behind by the first experiments in multi-cellular evolution.
- Jack-Benny rated 52 months ago
- "What was life like 560 million years ago? The Vendian marks the first appearance of a group of large fossils collectively known as the "Vendian biota" or "Ediacara fauna." The question of what these fossils are is still not settled to everyone's satisfaction"
