''Palaeopascichnus'' is an

Ediacaran The Ediacaran Period ( ) is a geological period that spans 96 million years from the end of the Cryogenian Period 635 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Cambrian Period 538.8 Mya. It marks the end of the Proterozoic Eon, and th ...

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 The Ediacaran (; formerly Vendian) biota is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic period classification that consists of all life forms that were present on Earth during the Ediacaran Period (). These were composed of enigmatic tubular and frond-sh ...

'. Once thought to represent a trace fossil, it is now recognized as a body fossil and corresponds to the skeleton of an agglutinating organism.

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

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