Cyclomedusa cerebrina
Palij, 1969
Late Ediacaran (Vendian)
White Sea, Russia

Sizes: diameter of body contour about 5,6cm (2,2 inch.). Good preservation. No reconstruction.

Acquisition: 2022-08-01

Ediacarian

Ediacarian is the last period of the precambrian. It is named after the Ediacara Hills of South Australia, where the first fossils of this era were found in 1947. The Ediacaran marks the first appearance of widespread multicellular fauna following the end of "Snowball Earth" glaciation events. Ediacaran biota is quite enigmatic. It is represented by a few modern groups of animals but also by now-extinct relatively simple animal with strange forms and shapes.