It superficially resembles a compressed cabbage in appearance, although in reality it had a more intricate, fractal mode of organisation.

When multiple fossils are found together they are regularly spaced out rather than randomly distributed.

It dominates the ecosystem at 8 to 22 cm above the mud surface at the bottom the sea where it grew.

Bradgatia has been found in Charnwood Forest in England, at Mistaken Point and Bonavista Peninsula in Newfoundland and also in British Columbia.

It was described by Helen Boynton & Ford in 1995 who published in Ediacaran fossils from the Precambrian (Charnian Supergroup) of Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, England.