埃迪卡拉

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Meanings

1 Ediacaran (geological period, c. 635-538 million years ago)
2 the late phase of the pre-Cambrian

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埃迪卡拉时期出现了最早的复杂多细胞生物。

Āidíkǎlā shíqī chūxiàn le zuì zǎo de fùzá duōxìbāo shēngwù.

The Ediacaran period saw the emergence of the earliest complex multicellular organisms.

埃迪卡拉动物群是研究早期生命演化的重要证据。

Āidíkǎlā dòngwùqún shì yánjiū zǎoqī shēngmìng yǎnhuà de zhòngyào zhèngjù.

The Ediacaran biota are key evidence for studying early life evolution.

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history

Named after the Ediacara Hills in South Australia, where the soft-bodied fossils of this era were first identified in the 1940s. The Ediacaran was officially declared a geological period in 2004 — the first new period added in 120 years.

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埃 āi

迪 dí

卡 kǎ

拉 lā