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 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 iconic organism of the Ediacaran fauna, which are among the first known representatives of multicellular life on the planet. Dickinsonia appears as a ribbed oval with glide symmetry. 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.
