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Spatial distributions of Tribrachidium, Rugoconites, and Obamus from the Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzite), South Australia

Phillip C. Boan, Scott D. Evans, Christine M. S. Hall, Mary L. Droser
Journal: Paleobiology
Published: 01 November 2023
Paleobiology (2023) 49 (4): 601–620.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2023.9
... with one another and their local environments. At Nilpena Ediacara National Park (NENP), South Australia, the exquisite preservation and excavation of 33 fossiliferous bedding planes from the Ediacara Member of the Rawnsley Quartzite reveals in situ communities of the Ediacara Biota. Here, the spatial...
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BIOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL INSIGHTS FROM THE PRESERVATIONAL VARIABILITY OF FUNISIA DOROTHEA , EDIACARA MEMBER, SOUTH AUSTRALIA

RACHEL L. SURPRENANT, JAMES G. GEHLING, MARY L. DROSER
Journal: PALAIOS
Published: 09 October 2020
PALAIOS (2020) 35 (9): 359–376.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2020.014
... shrouds true paleoecological and paleobiological signatures. We address the nature of this taphonomic complexity within the fossiliferous sandstones of the Ediacara Member in South Australia. Utilizing the most fossiliferous outcropping of the Ediacara Member, located at the Nilpena Station National...
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MICROBIAL MAT SANDWICHES AND OTHER ANACTUALISTIC SEDIMENTARY FEATURES OF THE EDIACARA MEMBER (RAWNSLEY QUARTZITE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA): IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERPRETATION OF THE EDIACARAN SEDIMENTARY RECORD

LIDYA G. TARHAN, MARY L. DROSER, JAMES G. GEHLING, MATTHEW P. DZAUGIS
Journal: PALAIOS
Published: 01 March 2017
PALAIOS (2017) 32 (3): 181–194.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2016.060
...LIDYA G. TARHAN; MARY L. DROSER; JAMES G. GEHLING; MATTHEW P. DZAUGIS Abstract The Ediacara Member of the Rawnsley Quartzite of South Australia hosts some of the most ecologically and taxonomically diverse fossil assemblages of the eponymous Ediacara Biota—Earth's earliest fossil record...
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A New Enigmatic, Tubular Organism from the Ediacara Member, Rawnsley Quartzite, South Australia

Lucas V. Joel, Mary L. Droser, James G. Gehling
Published: 01 March 2014
Journal of Paleontology (2014) 88 (2): 253–262.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1666/13-058
... the Ediacaran succession in South Australia. The organism, Plexus ricei n. gen. n. sp., is serially divided, has a bilateral morphology, and is dissimilar from any previously described Ediacaran genus or species. There are five sedimentary facies within the Ediacara Member, with the most abundant...
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Problematica, Trace Fossils, and Tubes within the Ediacara Member (South Australia): Redefining the Ediacaran Trace Fossil Record One Tube at a Time

Aaron Sappenfield, Mary L. Droser, James G. Gehling
Published: 01 March 2011
Journal of Paleontology (2011) 85 (2): 256–265.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1666/10-068.1
.... Two morphotypes, Form E and Form F of Glaessner (1969) , interpreted as trace fossils from the Ediacara Member of the Rawnsley Quartzite in South Australia are shown here to be body fossils of a single, previously unidentified tubular constructional morphology formally described herein as Somatohelix...
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Locality map of <span class="search-highlight">Ediacara</span> <span class="search-highlight">Member</span> outcrops (orange) in the Flinders Ranges ar...

Locality map of Ediacara Member outcrops (orange) in the Flinders Ranges ar...

Published: 22 November 2024
Fig. 2. Locality map of Ediacara Member outcrops (orange) in the Flinders Ranges area of South Australia. Nilpena Ediacara National Park denoted by a yellow star. Modified from Droser et al. 2019 .
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Previous paleoenvironmental interpretations of <span class="search-highlight">Ediacara</span> <span class="search-highlight">Member</span> and upper Ra...

Previous paleoenvironmental interpretations of Ediacara Member and upper Ra...

Published: 12 January 2021
Table 1.— Previous paleoenvironmental interpretations of Ediacara Member and upper Rawnsley Quartzite sedimentary facies. Facies numbers at top follow those used in this study. Note that Gehling and Droser (2013) have an additional “mass-flow” facies, in this study interpreted as the product
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Locality map of the <span class="search-highlight">Ediacara</span> <span class="search-highlight">Member</span> of South Australia. A ) Distribution o...

Locality map of the Ediacara Member of South Australia. A ) Distribution o...

Published: 09 October 2020
Fig. 1.— Locality map of the Ediacara Member of South Australia. A ) Distribution of Ediacara Member outcrops (orange) in South Australia. The location of the Nilpena Station National Heritage Ediacara Fossil Site is denoted by a white box. B ) Stratigraphic context of the Ediacara Member
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Primary branching morphology in Arborea from the <span class="search-highlight">Ediacara</span> <span class="search-highlight">Member</span> of the P...

Primary branching morphology in Arborea from the Ediacara Member of the P...

Published: 14 March 2018
Figure 4 Primary branching morphology in Arborea from the Ediacara Member of the Pound Subgroup. Branches arranged in increasing quality of preservation, from poorest-preserved branches to highest-quality preservation with secondary and possibly tertiary branching exposed. ( 1 ) Specimen P34499
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Geographic context of the fossiliferous <span class="search-highlight">Ediacara</span> <span class="search-highlight">Member</span> in the Flinders Ran...

Geographic context of the fossiliferous Ediacara Member in the Flinders Ran...

Published: 01 March 2017
Fig. 1.— Geographic context of the fossiliferous Ediacara Member in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia. Gray denotes exposure of the Pound Subgroup. Modified from Tarhan et al. (2015a) .
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Fossiliferous facies of the <span class="search-highlight">Ediacara</span> <span class="search-highlight">Member</span> .

Fossiliferous facies of the Ediacara Member .

Published: 01 March 2017
Table 1.— Fossiliferous facies of the Ediacara Member .
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Kimberichnus teruzzii , <span class="search-highlight">Ediacara</span> <span class="search-highlight">Member</span>, Rawnsley Quartzite, Flinders Range...

Kimberichnus teruzzii , Ediacara Member, Rawnsley Quartzite, Flinders Range...

Published: 01 March 2014
Figure 3 Kimberichnus teruzzii , Ediacara Member, Rawnsley Quartzite, Flinders Ranges, South Australia; all specimens are in positive hyporelief, being natural casts of scratch undertraces. 1 , overlapping arrays of bifid ridges, SAM P35651a, Bathtub Gorge; 2 , widely spaced pairs in single
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Block diagram cartoon of facies of the <span class="search-highlight">Ediacara</span> <span class="search-highlight">Member</span> (South Australia). T...

Block diagram cartoon of facies of the Ediacara Member (South Australia). T...

Published: 01 April 2013
Figure 1. Block diagram cartoon of facies of the Ediacara Member (South Australia). The unfossiliferous Fluvial Deltaic Sands of the Bonney Sandstone are overlain by the unfossiliferous Intertidal Mat Sands of the Chace Quartzite Member. The five fossiliferous facies that characterize
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Examples of key fossils from fossiliferous facies of the <span class="search-highlight">Ediacara</span> <span class="search-highlight">Member</span> of...

Examples of key fossils from fossiliferous facies of the Ediacara Member of...

Published: 01 April 2013
Figure 2. Examples of key fossils from fossiliferous facies of the Ediacara Member of the Rawnsley Quartzite (South Australia). Scale bar is 1 cm in all photos. A: Coronacollina acula , in Delta-Front Sands. B: Eoandromeda octobrachiata , in Sheet-Flow Sands. C: Charniodiscus sp., transported
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Figure 2. Bed-scale heterogeneity of the <span class="search-highlight">Ediacara</span> <span class="search-highlight">Member</span> as observed at Nil...

Figure 2. Bed-scale heterogeneity of the Ediacara Member as observed at Nil...

Published: 01 December 2010
Figure 2. Bed-scale heterogeneity of the Ediacara Member as observed at Nilpena and South Ediacara. Data include generic level, previously described body fossils, mop and associated ripped-up stalks. MMB2 is also strongly characterized by matted tubular fossils ( Droser and Gehling, 2008 ). Beds
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Affirming life aquatic for the Ediacara biota in China and Australia

Shuhai Xiao, Mary Droser, James G. Gehling, Ian V. Hughes, Bin Wan, Zhe Chen, Xunlai Yuan
Journal: Geology
Published: 01 October 2013
Geology (2013) 41 (10): 1095–1098.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/G34691.1
... beds in the eponymous Ediacara Member of South Australia have been recently reinterpreted as paleosols and Ediacara fossils as lichens or microbial colonies that lived on terrestrial soils. This reinterpretation, here dubbed the terrestrial Ediacara hypothesis, would fundamentally change our views...
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Petrological evidence supports the death mask model for the preservation of Ediacaran soft-bodied organisms in South Australia

Alexander G. Liu, Sean McMahon, Jack J. Matthews, John W. Still, Alexander T. Brasier
Journal: Geology
Published: 18 January 2019
Geology (2019) 47 (3): 215–218.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/G45918.1
... in late Ediacaran sedimentary successions, but an alternative rapid silicification model has been proposed for macrofossil preservation in sandstones of the Ediacara Member in South Australia. We here provide petrological evidence from Nilpena National Heritage Site and Ediacara Conservation Park...
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DECONSTRUCTING TAPHONOMY TO RECONSTRUCT THE MORPHOLOGY AND LIFE HABIT OF ATTENBORITES JANEAE AT NILPENA EDIACARA NATIONAL PARK

Heather K. Mccandless, Mary L. Droser
Journal: PALAIOS
Published: 22 November 2024
PALAIOS (2024) 39 (11): 411–422.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2023.005
...Fig. 2. Locality map of Ediacara Member outcrops (orange) in the Flinders Ranges area of South Australia. Nilpena Ediacara National Park denoted by a yellow star. Modified from Droser et al. 2019 . ...
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Figure 1. Locality map and stratigraphic distribution of the <span class="search-highlight">Ediacara</span> Membe...

Figure 1. Locality map and stratigraphic distribution of the Ediacara Membe...

Published: 01 December 2010
Figure 1. Locality map and stratigraphic distribution of the Ediacara Member in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia. A) Location of Nilpena Station and outcrops of the Ediacara Member (gray). B) Stratigraphic context of the Ediacara Member, Rawnsley Quartzite. Modified from Droser and Gehling
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A: Gesinella hunanensis from uppermost Doushantuo black shale at Wenghui ...

A: Gesinella hunanensis from uppermost Doushantuo black shale at Wenghui ...

Published: 01 October 2013
Figure 2. A: Gesinella hunanensis from uppermost Doushantuo black shale at Wenghui (China; courtesy of Y. Zhao). B, C: Similar tubular forms from Ediacara Member (South Australia) sandstone. D: Longifuniculum dissolutum from Miaohe Member black shale in Yangtze Gorges (China) area (courtesy