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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, and Ukraine. It is one of the best known members of the Ediacaran biota. The individual Dickinsonia typically resembles a bilaterally symmetrical ribbed oval.
Sep 20, 2018 · Say Hello to Dickinsonia, the Animal Kingdom’s Newest (and Oldest) Member Half-billion-year-old fossils reveal new details about one of the most mysterious chapters in Earth’s history By ...
Sep 20, 2018 · Dickinsonia was a flattened, ribbed oval that lived over 570 million years ago. A new study used fossil sterols to show that it was an animal, not a fungus or protist, as previously proposed.
Sep 20, 2018 · Dickinsonia were pancake-shaped sea creatures that lived 558 million years ago. A chemical analysis of their fossils shows they were the oldest-known animals, challenging the conventional view of the Cambrian explosion.
Sep 15, 2017 · A study by researchers from Cambridge and other universities shows that Dickinsonia, a mysterious Ediacaran fossil, grew by adding and inflating units along its axis. This confirms that it was an early animal, not a non-animal organism as previously suggested.
Sep 13, 2017 · The late Ediacaran soft-bodied macroorganism Dickinsonia (age range approx. 560–550 Ma) has often been interpreted as an early animal, and is increasingly invoked in debate on the evolutionary asse...
Dec 12, 2012 · Here I show that the uppermost surfaces of the palaeosols have a variety of fossils in growth position, including Charniodiscus, Dickinsonia, Hallidaya, Parvancorina, Phyllozoon, Praecambridium...
