Description

Dickinsonia costata
Precambrian
Penega Formation
East Angelsk, White Sea, Russia

Unusually preserved 35mm on 144mm slab.

Dickinsonia is a genus of one of the oldest macroscopic animals in the fossil record.  It’s known from Precambrian-age rocks of Australia and Russia and is one of the animals we envision when we think of the Ediacara fauna.  Yeah, it’s the one that looks like a fingerprint.