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Ediacara Hills / Nilpena

Type locality of the Ediacaran biota, the oldest known assemblage of complex multicellular life, in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia.

Dated events and their evidence

• about 555,000,000 years ago mainstream
  Ediacaran biota of the White Sea assemblage fossilized in the Ediacara Member of the Rawnsley Quartzite — among the oldest known complex multicellular organisms source
• 1946 CE mainstream
  geologist Reginald Sprigg notices the Ediacara fossils in the Flinders Ranges source
• 2023 CE mainstream
  Nilpena Ediacara National Park opens, protecting the fossil beds source

Where

30.8057° S, 138.1348° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ediacaran_biota
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilpena_Ediacara_National_Park
• https://ozgeology.com/blogs/news/the-ancient-rift-zone-of-the-flinders-ranges

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