Avalon explosion
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title:
Avalon explosion
text:
The Avalon explosion, named from the Precambrian faunal trace fossils discovered on the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland, eastern Canada, is a proposed evolutionary radiation of prehistoric animals about 575 million years ago in the Ediacaran period, with the Avalon explosion being one of three eras grouped in this time period. This evolutionary event is believed to have occurred some 33 million years earlier than the Cambrian explosion, which had been long thought to be when complex life starte
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description:
Proposed evolutionary event in the history of metazoa, producing the Ediacaran biota
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalon_explosion
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2024-03-30T12:09:35Z
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