The Garden of Ediacara 1
Copyright 1998 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McMenamin, Mark A. The garden of Ediacara discovering the first complex life Mark A. S. McMenamin. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Casebound editions of Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. Printed in the United States of America c 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 p 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Some images in the original version of...
Dickinsonia
The best-known Ediacaran fossil, Dickinsonia, promises to provide a tremendous amount of information concerning the paleobiology of these organisms. If only we knew what it was. Dickinsonia has the distinction of being the only fossil to be described as a jellyfish, a coral, a sea anemone, an annelid worm,58 a polychaete worm, an arthropod, a bacterium, a protozoan, a member of a new phylum, a member of a new kingdom, and even an alien creature from outer space. In 1992 Rudolf Raff asked seven...
Nung Animus
A few Aloe dichotoma were seen scattered on hills across the road. We saw more hills reminiscent of Joshua Tree National Monument. Could a variant of the Joshua tree principle apply to landscape recognition Do similar landscapes evoke uncannily similar vegetation The South Atlantic was beginning, as we proceeded, to fill the low spots in the western horizon like a rising tide. We passed a battered and stripped small blue station wagon to the right. Sand dunes were beginning to drape the hills...