Frondo Ediacar

"Frondo Ediacar and his Mighty Mighty Rangeomorphs" (Front album cover).

Frondo Ediacar is the stage name of paleontologist and musician [REDACTED].

Ediacar is known for his elaborate stage productions, including hermetically sealed performance spaces which replicate environmental conditions of the pre-Cambrian era.

In the News

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  A Field Guide to Edible Theropods is a book about preparing, cooking, serving, and eating various theropods. The latest edition has an introduction by Frondo Ediacar, describing his experiences in the upper Cretaceous as a boy.

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  Poster for T-Rex and Triceratops. Courtesy Gnomon Chronicles Film Board.

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  Publicity still for "The Answer is No: T-Rex and Triceratops".

Biography

• Early years - contributed to A Field Guide to Edible Theropods at the age of seven after surviving five weeks alone in the late Cretaceous era (within a half-million years of the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event. He would later write about this experience in the song "Asteroids Belt".

• Formed his first band of paleontologist-musicians, "Frondo Ediacar and his Mighty Mighty Rangeomorphs" at the age of fourteen.
  • The next day the band released their now-famous album of the same name to disappointing reviews.
  • The prestigious Journal of Aberrant Paleontology called the album "a seemingly random re-evaluation of well-established paleontological music theory."

• "Small Shelly Fauna" ... the "difficult nth album" (—Fell Swoop)

• Breakthrough and fame ... the Avalon Explosion album.

• Accusations of genetically engineering dinosaur-musicians in violation of musician's union contract, and subsequent retirement from the music-paleontology business.

• Release of controversial single "You Made Your Mistaken Point" — Virgin Records subsequently revokes its contract with Frondo Ediacar Research Associates, a heavy financial and emotional blow for [REDACTED]

• Solo work - commercially unsuccessful but critically acclaimed albums "Ocean Soup" and "Trilobite Blues" ... what music critic Fell Swoop called (in a rare moment of decency) "critically becalmed".

• Collaborations with Feral Butler and Neon Diatom ...

• Recent work ...

Discography

TO_DO - discography

Film and video

TO_DO - film and video

Fiction cross-reference

• Cretaceous Office Supplies
• Crimes against mathematical constants
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Neptune Slaughter
• Small Shelly Fauna (album)
• The Gnomon Chronicles Game

Nonfiction cross-reference

• [REDACTED] - model for Frondo Ediacar
• Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event (nonfiction)

External links

• Ediacaran @ Wikipedia
• Ediacaran biota @ Wikipedia
• Rangeomorph @ Wikipedia
• Small shelly fauna @ Wikipedia
• Avalon explosion @ Wikipedia
• Cambrian explosion @ Wikipedia
• End-Ediacaran extinction @ Wikipedia
• Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve

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