| Abstract from DBPedia | The Neoproterozoic Era is the unit of geologic time from 1 billion to 538.8 million years ago. It is the last era of the Precambrian Supereon and the Proterozoic Eon; it is subdivided into the Tonian, Cryogenian, and Ediacaran periods. It is preceded by the Mesoproterozoic Era and succeeded by the Paleozoic Era of the Phanerozoic Eon. The most severe glaciation known in the geologic record occurred during the Cryogenian, when ice sheets may have reached the equator and formed a "Snowball Earth". The earliest fossils of complex multicellular life are found in the Ediacaran Period. These organisms make up the Ediacaran biota, including the oldest definitive animals in the fossil record. According to Rino and co-workers, the sum of the continental crust formed in the Pan-African orogeny and the Grenville orogeny makes the Neoproterozoic the period of Earth's history that has produced most continental crust.新原生代（しんげんせいだい、Neoproterozoic）は地質時代の区分の一つ。原生代（先カンブリア時代）の最後の3紀、10億～5億4200±30万年にあたる代である。トニアン、クリオジェニアン、エディアカランに分かれる。クリオジェニアンには地球史上最も過酷な氷河時代の訪れがあったことが知られ、氷床は赤道にまで至る「スノーボールアース」状態となった。多細胞生物の最古の化石（最古の動物を含む）がエディアカランから発見された。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Neoproterozoic) |
