Ediacara Hills
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Dickinsonia costata is a common representative of the Ediacaran biota. The systematic position is not clearly established, but Dickinsonia is usually regarded as an animal in
The Ediacara Hills are a range of hills in the north of Flindersgebirges in the Australian state of South Australia around 350 km north of Adelaide. In this region, the first fossils of multicellular animals reach of Precambrian age in the form of impressions. These creatures, who had not yet developed a conservation enabled hard parts and their systematic position is unknown as yet, are collectively referred to as Ediacaran fauna.
After its distinctive soft-bodied Ediacaran fauna that is named, the youngest geological period of the Neoproterozoic. During this time, the sediments (Pound Quartzite ) were deposited, from which today exist the Ediacaran hills.
History of discovery of Ediacaran fauna
The importance of the Ediacaran hills for the stratigraphic range of multicellular organisms and the evolution of life can be fixed only since the mid-20th century. The geologist Reginald Sprigg Claude explored in 1946, the Ediacaran hills. There he found imprints of soft organisms that had survived mainly on the underside of quartzite and sandstone slabs. It was the first comprehensive fund Precambrian fossils. A few years later fossils were discovered by soft bodied organisms, also in Leicestershire, United Kingdom and Namibia.
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In the Ediacaran hills, there are many disused silver and copper mines from the 19th century.