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Close ✕Ediacara Hills, Flinders Ranges
Low hills in the northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia where, in 1946, the government geologist Reg Sprigg noticed impressions of soft-bodied organisms on the undersides of sandstone…
-30.9, 138.4 · approximate · fossils c. 560–550 Ma; discovered 1946
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- evidence for The evolution of multicellularity — The Ediacara assemblage is the first record of large, soft-bodied, multicellular organisms preserved as whole communities on bedding planes.
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