Charnia masoni
Taxonavigation
[edit]Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Amorphea
Cladus: Obazoa
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Cladus: Filozoa
Cladus: Choanozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: incertae sedis
Phylum: †Petalonamae
Classis: †Rangeomorpha
Genus: †Charnia
Species: †Charnia masoni
Name
[edit]Charnia masoni Ford, 1958
Holotype: Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, LEICT G279. [originally Department of Geology, University of Leicester, LEIUG 2328].
Type locality: Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, England.
Synonymy
[edit]- Charnia masoni Ford, 1958: 212
- Rangea sibirica Solokov, 1972: pl. I, fig. 3
- Glaessnerina sibirica: Glaessner, 1979: fig. 12 (1)
- Zolotytsia biserialis Fedonkin, 1981: 67–68, pl. 3, fig. 7
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Fedonkin, M.A. 1981. Беломорская биота венда (докембрийская бесскелетная фауна севера Русской платформы). [White Sea biota of Vendian (Precambrian non-skeletal fauna of the Russian Platform North).] Trudy Geologicheckogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 342: 1–100. (in Russian). PDF.
- Ford, T.D. 1958. Pre-Cambrian fossils from Charnwood Forest. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 31(3): 211–217. DOI: 10.1144/pygs.31.3.211
. Reference page. - Glaessner, M.F. 1979. Biogeography and Biostratigraphy. Precambrian. Pp. A79–A118. In: Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part A, Introduction, Fossilization (Taphonomy) Biogeography and Biostratigraphy. Boulder, Colorado and Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas. xxiii + 569 pp. DOI: 10.17161/dt.v0i0.5534
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Additional references
[edit]- Antcliffe, J.B. & Brasier, M.D. 2007. Charnia and sea pens are poles apart. Journal of the Geological Society 164(1): 49–51. DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492006-080 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
- Brasier, M.D. & Antcliffe, J.B. 2009. Evolutionary relationships within the Avalonian Ediacara biota: New insights from laser analysis. Journal of the Geological Society 166(2): 363–384. DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492008-011 . Academia.edu . Reference page.
- Brasier, M.D., Antcliffe, J.B. & Liu, A.G. 2012. The architecture of Ediacaran Fronds. Palaeontology 55(5): 1105–1124. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01164.x . Reference page.
- Dunn, F.S., Wilby, P.R., Kenchington, C.G., Grazhdankin, D.V., Donoghue, P.C.J. & Liu, A.G. 2018 (Online) 2019 (Print). Anatomy of the Ediacaran rangeomorph Charnia masoni. Papers in Palaeontology 5(1): 157–176. DOI: 10.1002/spp2.1234 . Reference page.
- Hofmann, H.J., O'Brien, S.J. & King, A.F. 2008. Ediacaran Biota on Bonavista Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 82(1): 1–36. DOI: 10.1666/06-087.1 . JSTOR
. Reference page. - McIlroy, D., Pérez-Pinedo, D., Rosse-Guillevic, S., Muirhead-Hunt, S., Taylor, R.S. & Dufour, S.C. 2025. Growth and disparity of form in the Ediacaran genus Charnia, with description of Charnia brasieri sp. nov. from the Ediacaran of Avalonia. Precambrian Research 431: 107947. DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2025.107947 . [Corrigendum: 432: 107976. DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2025.107976 .] Reference page. [C. grandis removed from synonymy]
