Dickinsonia costata
Ediacaran
Late Precambrian (Vendian)
Rawnsley Quartzite
South Australia

Excellent CAST of a 40mm specimen on 74mm slab.

Dickinsonia is a genus of one of the earliest 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, that’s the one that looks like a fingerprint.

Specimens are hardly ever on the market, and when they are, they can be rather faint and expensive.  You might as well get a nice cast like this one instead.

Casts are affordable visual aids to fossil collectors, museum curators, and science teachers.  They are life-size copies of actual fossils which fit well with fossil displays of all kinds.