Palaeopascichnus
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''Palaeopascichnus'' is an Ediacaran fossil comprising a series of lobes, first originating before the
Gaskiers glaciation The Gaskiers glaciation is a period of widespread glacial deposits (e.g. diamictites) that lasted under 340 thousand years, between 579.63 ± 0.15 and 579.88 ± 0.44 million years ago — i.e. late in the Ediacaran Period — making it the last maj ...
; it is plausibly a protozoan, but probably unrelated to the classical ' Ediacaran biota'. Once thought to represent a trace fossil, it is now recognized as a body fossil and corresponds to the skeleton of an agglutinating organism.


See also

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List of Ediacaran genera This is a list of all described Ediacaran genera, including the Ediacaran biota. It contains 227 genera. References {{reflist, 30em * Ediacaran The Ediacaran Period ( ) is a geological period that spans 96 million years from the end ...
* Palaeopascichnid


References

Ediacaran life Incertae sedis Ediacaran Europe Geology of Ukraine {{Ediacaran-stub