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what are the 5 main features of metazoa?
Eukaryotic, multicellular, heterotrophic, motile and have no cell wall
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Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic, Phanerozoic
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when was the hadean time?
4600-4000mya
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when was the archean time
4000-2500mya
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when was the proterozoic time
2500-540mya
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when was the phanerozoic time
540-0mya
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key features of archean time? (4)
low o2, high CO2 and CH4, evidence of photosynthesis from cyanobacteria and lipid fossils, stromatolites formed from cyano photosynthetic bubbles
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key features of proterozoic (2)
eukaryotes form from multiple endosymbiosis and multicellularity arose
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what are the 3 types of ediacaran biota
Branching forms- vendobiota, radial forms and possible bilaterally symmetrical animals
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Where/when is the ediacaran biota from
553mya from ediacara hills in australia
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Features of vendobiota 2
fractal growth and alternate arrangments of tubules and fronds
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features of radial forms 3
frond bases or circular microbial, tri-octaradial discs, layers of symmetry
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What is the ecology of the ediacaran biota? (6)
lived on flat planes, mostly epibenthic, sessile, short food chains, high SA:vol ratio and asexual repo
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Which fossil is truly bilaterian?
Kimberella
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Which fossil is early bilaterian?
Spriggina
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Which fossil is a placozoan?
Dickinsonia
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Which fossil is thought to be a metazoan
Haootia
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