Ediacaran Localities

Introduction

The following page describes a number of Ediacaran fossil localities, drawn from references I have come across in the course of preparing a general account of the Ediacaran biota. It is not intended to be comprehensive or even representative, but if it helps answer a question you may have, well and good.

Principal Ediacaran Fossil Localities

The following table lists a number of general accounts of some Ediacaran fossil localities.

Sprigg 1946; Glaessner 1958; Glaessner 1959; Glaessner & Wade 1966; Nedin & Jenkins 1998

Taxon Occurrences

The following table lists a number of Ediacaran taxa, the localities from which they have been described, and the reference which documents the occurrence.

References

Anderson, M.M. 1978: Ediacaran Fauna. In Lapedes, D.N. (ed.) 1978: Yearbook of Science and Technology. McGraw-Hill, pp. 146-149.

Clapham, Matthew E.; Narbonne, Guy M.; Gehling, James G.; Greentree, Carolyn; Anderson, Michael M. 2004: Thectardis avalonensis: A new Ediacaran fossil from the Mistaken Point biota, Newfoundland. Journal of Paleontology 78: 1031-1036.

Clarkson, E.N.K. 1993: Invertebrate Paleontology and Evolution (3rd ed.) Chapman and Hall.

Crimes, T.P.; Insole, A.; Williams, B.P.J. 1995: A Rigid-Bodied Ediacaran Biota from Upper Cambrian Strata in Co. Wexford, Eire. Geological Journal 30: 89-109.

Fedonkin, M.A. 1980: Novye Predstaviteli Dokembriyskikh Kishechnopolostnykh na Severe Russkoy Platformy (New Precambrian Coelenterata in the North of the Russian Platform). Paleontologicheskiy Zhurnal 2: 7-15.

Fedonkin, M.A. 1981: Vendian White Sea Biota. Akademie Nauka SSSR, Moscow 342: 1-98 [in Russian].

Fedonkin, M.A. 1990: Systematic Descriptions of Vendian Metazoa. In Sokolov, B.S.; Iwanoski, A.B. (eds.) 1990: The Vendian System. Vol. 1, Paleontology. Springer, pp. 71-120.

Ford, T.D. 1958: Precambrian Fossils from Charnwood Forest. Yorkshire Geological Society Proceedings, 31: 211-217.

Gehling, J.G. 1987: Earliest Known Echinoderm - A New Ediacaran Fossil from the Pound Subgroup of South Australia. Alcheringa 11: 337-345.

Gehling, James G.; Narbonne, Guy M.; Anderson, Michael M. 2000: The First Named Ediacaran Body Fossil, Aspidella terranovica. Palaeontology 43 (3): 427-456.

Glaessner, M.F. 1958: New Fossils from the Base of the Cambrian in South Australia. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust. 81: 185-188.

Glaessner, M.F. 1959. In Glaessner, M.F.; Daily, B. 1959: The Geology and Late Precambrian Fauna of the Ediacara Fossil Reserve. Rec. S. Aust. Mus. 13: 369-401.

Glaessner, Martin F.; Wade, Mary 1966: The Late Precambrian Fossils from Ediacara, South Australia. Palaeontology 9 (4), pp. 599-628.

Gureev, Yu.A. 1986: O Perspektivakh Paleontologicheskogo Metoda v Stratigrafii. Kiev, USSR, Tektonika i Stratigrafiya, Naukova Dumka 27: 42-47.

Gureev, Yu.A. 1987: Morfologicheskiy Analiz i Sistematika Vendiat. Kiev, USSR, Akademiya Nauk Ukrainskoy SSR, Institut Geologicheskikh Nauk, Preprint 87-15, 54 pp.

Gürich, G. 1930: Über den Kuibisquarzit in Südwestafrika. Z. deutsch. geol. Ges. 82: 637.

Hagadorn, J.W.; Waggoner, B.M. 2000: Ediacaran Fossils from the Southwestern Great Basin, United States. Journal of Paleontology, 74: 349-359.

Hahn, G.; Pflug, H.D. 1980: Ein Neuer Medusan-Fund aus dem Jung-Präkambrium von Zentral Iran. Seneckenbergiana Lethaea 60: 449-461.

Hofmann, H.J.; Narbonne, G.M.; Aitken, J.D. 1990: Ediacaran Remains from Intertillite Beds in Northwestern Canada. Geology 18: 1199-1202.

Harrington, H.J.; Moore, R.C. 1956. In Moore, R.C. (ed.) 1956: Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part F, Coelenterata. Geol. Soc. Am.

Martin, M.W.; Grazhdankin, D.V.; Bowring, S.A.; Evans, D.A.D.; Fedonkin, M.A.; Kirschvink, J.L. 2000: Age of Neoproterozoic Bilaterian Body and Trace Fossils, White Sea, Russia: Implications for Metazoan Evolution. Science v.288: 841-845.

Narbonne, Guy M.; Gehling, James G. 2003: Life After Snowball: The Oldest Complex Ediacaran Fossils. Geology 31(1): 27-30.

Nedin, C; Jenkins, R.J.F. 1998: The First Occurrence of the Ediacaran Fossil Charnia from the Southern Hemisphere. Alcheringa, 24: 315-316.

Palij, V.M. 1976: Remains of Soft-Bodied Animals and Trace Fossils from the Late Precambrian and Early Cambrian of Podolia. In Paleontologiyi i Stratigrafiya Verkhnego Kembriya i Nizhnego Paleozoya Yugo-Zapada Vostochno - Europeiskoi Platformy, 63-77.

Runnegar, B. 1992: Proterozoic Fossils of Soft-Bodied Metazoans (Ediacara Faunas). In Schopf, J.W.; Klein, C. (eds.) 1992: The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study. Cambridge, pp. 999-1007.

Ryabenko, V.A. et al. 1988: Biostratigrafiya i Paleogeograficheskie Rekonstruktzii Dokembriya Ukrainy. Kiev, USSR, Naukova Dumka, 140 pp.

Sprigg, R.C. 1947: Early Cambrian (?) Jellyfishes from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust. 71: 212-224.

Sprigg, R.C. 1949: Early Cambrian ‘Jellyfishes’ of Ediacara, South Australia, and Mt. John, Kimberley District, Western Australia. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust. 73: 72-99.

Wood, Rachel A.; Grotzinger, John P.; Dickson, J.A.D. 2002: Proterozoic Modular Biomineralized Metazoan from the Nama Group, Namibia. Science 296: 2383-2386.

Zhang, L.Y. 1986: A Discovery and Preliminary Study of the Late Stage of Late Gaojiashan Biota from Sinian in Nianqiang County, Shaanxi. Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Xi'an Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources Bulletin 13: 67-88 [in Chinese with English abstract].