What is the Ediacaran period?
Q: What is the Ediacaran period?
A: The Ediacaran period is the last geological period of the Proterozoic eon, which lasted from about 635–541 million years ago.
Q: After the Ediacaran period, what period followed?
A: The Cambrian period, which was the first period of the Palaeozoic, followed the Ediacaran period.
Q: What is the significance of the Ediacaran period?
A: The Ediacaran period is famous for the first larger-bodied fossils that may have been the first recorded metazoans.
Q: Where were the first larger-bodied fossils found?
A: The impressions or trace fossils of the first larger-bodied fossils were first found in England's Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire.
Q: When were fossils from the same period found in South Australia?
A: It was over 60 years after the first discovery of fossils that fossils from the same period were found in South Australia.
Q: When was the Ediacaran period declared an official geological period?
A: The Ediacaran period was confirmed as an official geological period in 2004 by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS).
Q: What is the significance of the declaration of the Ediacaran period?
A: By declaring the Ediacaran period an official geological period, it became the first new geological period declared in 120 years.
