Our (@dgarciabellido, Jim Gehling & me) PhD student, @half_a_billion, just submitted her brilliant thesis today! Congratulations, Felicity! @SAMuseum. Big shout-out too to Prof Mary Droser of @UCRiverside #Ediacara #palaeoecology #Parvancorina #halfabillionyearsofevoluion

Full paper now available (free with this link): Evidence of sensory-driven behaviour in the #Ediacaran organism #Parvancorina: implications and autecological interpretations https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1WKao,UYEnKC3u @ELSenviron #550million #halfabillion #palaeoecology #Precambrian #Gondwana

What behaviours can you infer from 550 million year-old fossils? Quite a lot of them, as it turns out www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S134... #Ediacara #Parvancorina #deeptimeecology #ecology #palaeoecology #precambrian #palaeontology