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Ediacaran fauna

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Ediacaran fauna [‚ēd·ē·ə′kar·ən ′fȯn·ə]
(paleontology)
The oldest known assemblage of fossil remains of soft-bodied marine animals; first discovered in the Ediacara Hills, Australia.


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It may have even spurred a tremendous bloom of evolutionary innovation known as the Ediacaran fauna (SN: 5/18/96, p.
An awful lot of what we get out of the Ediacaran fauna and the Cambrian explosion doesn't have any clear relative today and is very paradoxical.
 
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