Ediacaran

Glad someone made a screenshot of every major build in one picture.

**Ediacaran** period is a phase of the Neoproterozoic Subupdate spanning 96 mln years. It started at the end of Snowball earth event 635 Mya and ended with version 1.1.1. 538.8 Mya.  This period is the last of The Proterozoic Expansion and starts Phanerozoic

## Major events

### Playerbase

In the Ediacaran relatively new Multicellular builds gained more popularity and bringed new players.

Many of these builds were added during or after the Avalon Explosion Event (575 Mya) and were banned during End-Ediacaran Extinction event to give more place for Cambrian Builds. most builds looked like: Immobile bags, fronds, disks and segmented worms

Some Living today fractions were also introduced like: cnidarians and Xenacoelomorpha. Fossils and skeletons were yet to be added to animals during Cambrian.

There is Evidence of mass Extinction event at the end but we don't know happened there.

### Geology

Supercontinent Panottia was added during this period but plans for it were scrapped and it was removed at the end.

Gaskiers, Baykonurian Glaciation event and Shuram excursion event also happened.

## Notable builds

#### Fractions

Full list- Ediacaran Genera (wikipedia) and Ediacaran Guilds (Wiki)

• Proarticulata- Bilaterians with Articulation.

• Petalonamae- Similiar to modern Sea-pen Build from the Abyss Server.

• Trilobozoa- Tri-radial forms

#### Guilds

• Dickinsonia- member of the Proarticulata. We don't know much but it was bilaterally symmetrical ribbed oval.

• Spriggina- early bilaterian guild whose relationship to living guilds is unclear. reached 3–5 centimetres (1.2–2.0 in) in length and may have been predatory.

• Charnia- frond-like builds with segmented, leaf-like ridges branching alternately to the right and left from a zig-zag medial suture. grew on the sea floor and is believed to have fed on nutrients in the water. Despite *Charnia*'s fern-like appearance, it is not a photosynthetic plant or alga because the nature of the fossilbeds where eastereggs have been found implies that it originally lived in deep water biomes.

• Tribrachidium- tri-radially symmetric guild that lived in the late Ediacaran (Vendian) sea server.

**Builds**

-*Dickinsonia costata- Unlike other Builds, D. costata has comparatively rounded body and fewer, wider segments / isomers.*

-*Dickinsonia menneri- D. menneri is a small build up to 8 mm in length, and strongly resembles juvenile of D. costata with its small number of isomers and well-marked head. D. menneri differs from juvenile D. costata by its slightly more elongated form.*

-*Dickinsonia tenuis- Strongly resembles D. costata, but differs from it by more narrow and numerous segments, sparingly lengthened oval form of the body.*

• Cyclomedusa Davidii- it has a circular bump in the middle and as many as five circular growth ridges around it. It is now suggested that *Cyclomedusa* was a microbial colony.

## Timeline

**Due to the game's history corruption, what is shown here is just speculation from game dataminers so this information may be outdated, if that is the case, please update this page.**
 Otavia Antiqua first animal is added
 Gaskiers Glaciation Short event happens
 Avalon Explosion Event brings many new players and builds
 Shuram Excursion happens but recovery takes 50 mln years
 First pulse of Deleting builds from the game
 Baykonurian glaciation event starts
 Second Pulse of Deleting builds from the game

## Fun facts

• Name of this Phase comes from the Ediacara Hills Location in Australia Server.

• More than 100 guilds were added during this update most popular: *Arkarua*, *Charnia*, *Dickinsonia*, *Ediacaria*, *Marywadea*, *Cephalonega*, *Pteridinium*, and *Yorgia.*

• Because of Moon being closer tides were stronger than they are now. Day was ~22 hours long and there were 13 months and year had ~400 days.

### Hall of fame

Where the Ediacaran phase and biota was showed

* *The Time Traveller's Guide To Australia* (2012, ABC Science; Part 1 of 4).
* *The Geological History of Canada*, as part of The Nature of Things series, CBC-SRC; 2011; Eastern Canada.
* The first episode of a BBC documentary titled *Life on Earth*, with David Attenborough as narrator.
* Another documentary narrated by David Attenborough titled *First Life* featuring *Charnia*, *Dickinsonia*, *Spriggina*, *Funisia*, and *Kimberella* animated in CGI.
* *In our time* - Ediacara Biota, BBC, 9 July 2009

## References

Source-Wikipedia

1. ↑ https://stratigraphy.org/ICSchart/ChronostratChart2022-02.pdf
2. ↑ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4571692
3. ↑ https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000RvGeo..38...37W
4. ↑ https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2014/09/01/4076259.htm