Dickinsonia was a photosynthesizing animal that lived during the Ediacaran period, 558 million years ago. It had an egg-shaped body with rib-like segments and fossils are found in Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Dickinsonia is an early type of pre-Cambrian life. They were very different from current organisms. They are considered to be one of the early forms of multicellular organisms. Their bodies were shaped like discs. Based on the fossils, they were between four millimetres and 1.4m in size. [2] They were only a few millimetres thick. Their body was segmented: there is a large central furrow, and smaller ones around the body of the organism. Their body was symmetric. Mostly based on the shape ... Taking to the warm shallow seas as early as 570 million years ago, these soft and squishy misfits were Earth's earliest complex life. One of the most famous of the lot is Dickinsonia. This... Dickinsonia is an extinct genus of basal animal that lived during the late Ediacaran period on ocean floors around present-day’s Australia, Russia and Ukraine.
