Palaeos:		Ediacaran Period
Neoproterozoic		Ediacaran References

Ediacaran (Vendian) References

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Notes

[1] Ask any Texan, even your normally urbane and cosmopolitan host, about the Middle East.  We will be happy to share our knowledge of the fabled realms of Eye-Rak, Gutter (Qatar), Sow-Dee, Jawd'n (1 syllable), and Iz-rul.  

[2]  This requires a little explanation.  Refer to the figure in Knoll et al. (2000).  As we hinted, there is a separate glaciation event which shows up in some exposures and dates to between 600 and 580 My.  Some of the Twitya trace fossils apparantly occur below the tillite associated with this Ice Age, which some call the Marinoan.  So far as we are aware, no one claims to have found metazoans from a level below the Ediacaran GSSP.