The Ediacara Hills are a range of low hills in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia where, in the 1940s, geologist Reginald Sprigg discovered impressions of soft bodied organisms in sandstone that proved to be among the oldest complex multicellular life yet found, roughly five hundred and fifty to six hundred million years old. The discovery gave its name to the Ediacaran period of geologic time and to the wider Ediacaran biota, the frond and disc shaped organisms that dominated Earth's oceans before the Cambrian explosion of animal life.
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
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i) north of the state capital of Adelaide. They are within the Nilpena Ediacara National Park.
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