Here are some photos of a few of my favorite fossils from published paleontological studies. All photos can be seen in greater detail when you click on the image. Large vendobiont, Dickinsonia costata , from Late Precambrian Ediacara Member of the Rawnsley Quartzite in Brachina Gorge, Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
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Many of these enigmatic fossils make too good an impression in deeply buried quartzites to have been soft bodied animals. Scale is in cm. Scale is in cm. This specimen comes from Early Triassic shales bleached by Cenozoic lateritization at Culvida Soak in the Canning Desert of Western Australia. Scale is in cm.