By: magic-gigapans
Image: Jay Kaufman, University of Maryland
License: Creative Commons Non Commercial ⧉

Uploaded: 8 May 2020
Last Updated: 20 May 2020

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A ca. 550 million year old sandstone block containing impressions of Pteridinium, one of the engimatic Ediacara biota, a failed experiment in animal life. The block was gigapanned by Les Kriesfeld and Jay Kaufman at the Namibian Geological Survey in Windhoek, Namibia in summer 2014. The block was labelled as having been found at Farm Plateau, but this may have been from Farm Aar.