Ediacaran
(redirected from Vendian)E·di·a·ca·ran
(ē′dē-ä′kə-rən)adj.
1. Of or relating to the final geologic period of the late Precambrian Era, lasting from 620 to 542 million years ago.
2. Of or relating to a group of fossilized soft-bodied marine organisms that are the earliest known remains of multicellular life and date from between 560 and 542 million years ago.
[After the Ediacaran Hills in southern Australia, where the first such fossils were found.]
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Ediacaran
(ˌiːdiːˈækərən)adj
(Geological Science) of, denoting, or formed in the last 50 million years of the Neoproterozoic era, during which a new texturally and chemically distinctive carbonate layer appeared, indicating climatic change
n
(Geological Science) the Ediacaran the Ediacaran period or rock system
[C20: named after the Ediacara Hills in the Flinders mountain range in South Australia]
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E·di·a·ca·ran
(ē′dē-ä′kə-rən) Relating to a group of fossilized organisms that are the earliest known remains of multicellular life. They are soft-bodied marine life forms that date from between 560 and 545 million years ago, during the late Precambrian Eon.
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