The Garden of Ediacara: Discovering the First Complex Life

by Mark A.S. McMenamin

Book Overview

During an expedition in Sonora, Mexico, paleontologist Mark A. S. McMenamin unearthed fossils of creatures dated at approximately 600 million years old--making them the oldest large body fossils ever discovered. These circular fossils, known as Ediacarans, seemed to defy explanation. Representatives of marine life forms that existed in Precambrian times, as much as fifty million years before life on earth began to diversify rapidly, the specimens...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231105592
• ISBN13: 9780231105590
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.8"