The rangeomorphs are a group of Ediacaran fossils. Ediacarans are the oldest large fossil organisms on earth, and many are not self-evidently related to...
12 KB (1,293 words) - 04:48, 25 June 2025
such as rangeomorphs, and some macroalgae and lichens. In paleontology of Ediacaran marine organisms, a frond may be defined as "a rangeomorph unit with...
11 KB (1,354 words) - 02:34, 15 January 2025
Avalofractus abaculus is a frond-like rangeomorph fossil described from the Ediacaran of the Trepassey Formation, Spaniard's Bay, Newfoundland. Avalofractus...
4 KB (357 words) - 11:08, 29 June 2025
Charnwood Forest of Leicestershire, England. It serves as an important rangeomorph because of its multifoliate anatomy. Its overall body plan is similar...
6 KB (721 words) - 10:11, 13 May 2025
Chen, Z.; Wang, X.; Zhou, C.; Wan, B.; Yuan, X.; Xiao, S. (2022). "The rangeomorph fossil Charnia from the Ediacaran Shibantan biota in the Yangtze Gorges...
19 KB (2,061 words) - 16:25, 19 July 2025
Pectinifrons was a rangeomorph, a member of the Ediacara biota found at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland. It was a multi-branched organism with a comb-like...
2 KB (81 words) - 11:06, 29 June 2025
Spriggina is unknown; it has been variously classified as an annelid worm, a rangeomorph-like frond, a variant of Charniodiscus, a proarticulatan, an arthropod...
17 KB (1,621 words) - 02:50, 16 June 2025
pairs, but offset each other alternately; like the segments of many rangeomorphs. They show a front and a back end, the footprints indicate some capacity...
2 KB (200 words) - 16:42, 15 July 2025
Rangeomorph originally thought to be Charniodiscus...
4 KB (307 words) - 16:27, 23 July 2025
Trepassia is a 579 million-year-old fossil of Ediacaran rangeomorph. It was first discovered by Guy M. Narbonne, a professor at Queen's University in...
5 KB (443 words) - 12:12, 25 May 2025
Primocandelabrum is a genus of rangeomorph known from the Avalon-type Ediacaran biota. It makes up the brunt of some bedding plane assemblages. Primocandelabrum...
3 KB (225 words) - 11:06, 29 June 2025
It was named after Professor Misra in 2007. It represents a frondose rangeomorph, and its overall body plan shows glide reflection symmetry, which is...
8 KB (720 words) - 21:09, 15 November 2024
Hapsidophyllas is a rare Ediacaran rangeomorph fossil found at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, Canada. It was first identified by Emily Bamforth and Guy...
4 KB (462 words) - 22:29, 26 May 2025
this way. The F. grandis has multibranching that differs from the other Rangeomorphs that have been discovered. They have frond-like leaflets that are flexible...
6 KB (556 words) - 14:06, 26 May 2025
R; Pasinneti, G; Taylor, R (2020). "Palaeobiology of the reclining rangeomorph Beothukis from the Ediacaran Mistaken Point Formation of southeastern...
4 KB (367 words) - 11:06, 29 June 2025
et al. (2014, 2015) instead suggest that it is the decayed remains of rangeomorphs. The fossils take the form of a triangle with a central depression, suggesting...
6 KB (640 words) - 03:59, 30 July 2025
Donoghue, Philip C. J.; Liu, Alexander G. (2019). "Anatomy of the Ediacaran rangeomorph Charnia masoni". Papers in Palaeontology. 5 (1): 157–176. Bibcode:2019PPal...
414 KB (43,285 words) - 10:05, 31 July 2025
organisms flat. These organisms appear to form two groups: the fractal rangeomorphs and the simpler erniettomorphs. Including such fossils as the iconic...
109 KB (11,353 words) - 19:08, 29 July 2025
Charniidae is a family of rangeomorphs. It is the only non-monotypic family of Rangeomorpha. From the Ediacaran of Australia, Canada, Russia and the United...
2 KB (139 words) - 11:52, 8 May 2023
1130/G31890.1. Kenchington, Charlotte G.; Wilby, Philip R. (January 2017). "Rangeomorph classification schemes and intra-specific variation: are all characters...
8 KB (913 words) - 21:01, 23 June 2025
and Sekwi Brooke in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Deep-water rangeomorphs, and to a lesser extent arboreomorphs, dominated the Avalonian biota...
7 KB (481 words) - 16:46, 17 July 2025
Ediacaran fossil with six-fold radial symmetry. It is the type genus of the rangeomorphs. Rangea was the first complex Precambrian macrofossil named and described...
11 KB (1,314 words) - 15:16, 13 May 2025
including fossils of Palaeopascichnus, Mawsonites, Hiemalora and putative rangeomorphs. Lonsdale et al. (2025) describe ribbon-like fossils from the Ediacaran...
252 KB (22,062 words) - 08:13, 31 July 2025
with a tetraradial symmetry, bearing similarities with Rangea, another rangeomorph petalonamid. An outdated reconstruction of Bomakellia kelleri as a proto-arthropod...
4 KB (407 words) - 07:00, 12 July 2025
they probably form a clade and are most likely a sister group to the rangeomorphs, which bear a similar (though fractal) construction. Placements within...
4 KB (407 words) - 21:43, 9 June 2025
Greentree, C.; Trusler, P. (2009). "Reconstructing a Lost World: Ediacaran Rangeomorphs from Spaniard's Bay, Newfoundland". Journal of Paleontology. 83 (4):...
92 KB (5,609 words) - 21:40, 8 July 2025
The Avalonian organisms are completely benthic, with a predominance of rangeomorphs, well below the photic zone, at a depth of one kilometer, which rules...
22 KB (2,566 words) - 18:47, 17 July 2025
Donoghue, Philip C. J.; Liu, Alexander G. (2019). "Anatomy of the Ediacaran rangeomorph Charnia masoni". Papers in Palaeontology. 5 (1): 157–176. Bibcode:2019PPal...
25 KB (2,726 words) - 18:46, 28 July 2025
Philip R. (2018). "Modularity and Overcompensatory Growth in Ediacaran Rangeomorphs Demonstrate Early Adaptations for Coping with Environmental Pressures"...
14 KB (1,469 words) - 02:53, 27 May 2025