Name: Ediacara Assemblage Location: Worldwide - named after locality in Australia.

Also found in Namibia, Sweden, Eastern Europe, Canada, England, Wales, New Foundland, Age: Neoproterozoic

Location
The Ediacara assemblage was first recognized in Namibia in 1908, where it was ignored, and the fossils left in a drawer until a similar assemblage was found in Ediacara, near Adelaide in Australia, by the mining geologist R.C.Sprigg in 1947. Other deposits assigned to the Ediacara assemblage were found in:

Sweden, Eastern Europe Baltica (Northern Europe) Siberia NW Laurentia (an ancient continent formed of North America, Canada and Greenland) SW Laurentia South China South America Mistaken Point Formation, Newfoundland Charnwood Forest, England Wales

Fig 1. Map of World, Ediacara assemblage locations denoted by red stars. This demonstrates that the Ediacara was an assemblage with world-wide geographical range, although the different, Pre-Cambrian, global palaeogeography should be kept in mind. Based on shared taxa in different localities, the locations can be placed in three groups: (1) Newfoundland and Charnwood Forest, UK. (2) Ediacara, Baltica, Siberia and NW Laurentia. (3) Namibia, SW Laurentia, S. America and S.China (Waggoner, 1999). Return to Ediacara Homepage Section author: Kate Yarrington This section is part of a Fossil Lagersttten web site which has been built up as a result of the efforts of the 2002-3 MSc Palaeobiology class in the Department of Earth Sciences at University of Bristol, as part of a course in Scientific Communication. Department of Earth Sciences University of Bristol Wills Memorial Building Queen's Road BRISTOL BS8 1RJ http://www.gly.bris.ac.uk

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