What are the Ediacaran biota?
Q: What are the Ediacaran biota?
A: The Ediacaran biota are the fauna of the Ediacaran period, a geological period that lasted from 635–542 million years ago.
Q: When did the fossil biota of the Ediacaran period exist?
A: The fossil biota of the Ediacaran period existed only from 575-542 million years ago.
Q: What types of organisms were part of the Ediacaran biota?
A: The Ediacaran biota consisted of soft-bodied multicellular organisms, probably animals, which left trace fossils in rocks of Ediacaran age.
Q: When did the Ediacaran period occur?
A: The Ediacaran period occurred from 635–542 million years ago.
Q: What was the Ediacaran biota's relationship to the Cambrian period?
A: The Ediacaran biota appeared just before the Cambrian period and suffered a fairly severe extinction event at the boundary with the Cambrian.
Q: Was there any sign of the Ediacaran biota during the earlier Marinoan glaciation?
A: There was no sign of the Ediacaran biota during the earlier Marinoan glaciation.
Q: Did any of the Ediacaran biota survive into the early Cambrian?
A: Some of the Ediacaran biota may have survived into the early Cambrian period.
