Cloudina was tropical to subtropical, but Dickinsonia temperate to subtropical. The discovery of Dickinsonia in India allows assessment of biogeographic provinces and plate tectonic reconstructions for the late Ediacaran. 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. 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 was resistant to compaction by overburden, like fossil lichens such as Spongiophyton and Thucomyces, and more compaction-resistant than fossil logs, jellyfish or worms. Dickinsonia also shows indeterminate growth like lichens, fungi, plants, xenophyophorans and colonial animals.
