Garden of Ediacara Discovering the First Complex Life

Name: Garden of Ediacara Discovering the First Complex Life
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ISBN: 9780231105590

ISBN-10: 0231105592

ISBN-13: 9780231105590

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Mark A. S. Mcmenamin

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During an expedition in Sonora, Mexico, paleontologist Mark A. S. McMenamin unearthed fossils of creatures dated at approximately 600 million years old -- making them the oldest large body fossils ever discovered. These circular fossils, known as Ediacarans, seemed to defy explanation. Representatives of marine life forms that existed in Precambrian times, as much as fifty million years before life on earth began to diversify rapidly, the specimens bore a superficial resemblance to jellyfish. A typical Ediacaran had a quilted body, three curving arms at the center, and a fringe of fine radial lines. McMenamin's curiosity was fueled by the puzzle of whether the Ediacarans were animals or…

Book details

List price: $38.00
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 9/26/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.43" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments



Mystery Fossil


Notes



The Sand Menagerie


Notes



Vermiforma


Notes



The Nama Group


Notes



Back to the Garden


Notes



Cloudina


Notes



Ophrydium


Notes



Reunite Rodinia!


Notes



The Mexican Find: Sonora 1995


Notes



The Lost World


Notes



A Family Tree


Notes



Awareness of Ediacara


Notes



Revenge of the Mole Rats


Notes


Epilogue: Parallel Evolution


Notes


Appendix


Index