ion.

    Nine  years  later,  in  1957,  a  sc in trange fossil in it, similar toa modern sea pen and exactly like some of trying totell everyone about ever since. turned it in to a paleontologist at tyof Leicester,  at once as Precambrian. Young Mason got ure in treated as a precocious ill is in many books. the specimen wasnamed in his honor Chamia masoni.

    today some of Sprigg’s original Ediacaran specimens, along een  t time, canbe seen in a glass case in an upstairs room of tout and lovely Soutralian Museumin Adelaide, but t attract a great deal of attention. tely etcterns arerat and not terribly arresting to trained eye. tly small and disc-srailing ribbons. Fortey -bodiedoddities.”

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    Nor is it agreed t tral to anytoday (except possibly some jellyfisies see t, a stab at complexity t didn’t take, possibly because tcompeted by ticated animals of theCambrian period.

    “today,” Fortey ten. “t tointerpret as any kind of ancestors of o follow.”

    t ultimately t t