The Ediacaran fauna (approximately 635-541 million years ago) represents the oldest well-documented fossil record of complex, soft-bodied metazoan (multicellular animal) life, predating the Cambrian explosion of hard-shelled organisms.
The Ediacaran fauna comprises the oldest known assemblage of soft-bodied metazoan (animal) fossils, preserved as impressions in fine-grained sediments from the late Precambrian (Ediacaran Period),...
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