Geological Society, London, Special Publications
Volume 286, 2007
The Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran Biota
Edited by:
Patricia Vickers-Rich, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia and
Patricia Komarower, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

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Yorgia rising - an imaginative vista by Melbourne artist Peter Trusler of the White Sea cliffs of northern Russia. Yorgia is one of the oldest animals on Earth, an Ediacaran, common in the Vendian sequences of the Russian north, which left traces of movement and detailed imprints of its anatomy in the shallow marine muds more than 550 million years ago.

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