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    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...
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    such as rangeomorphs, and some macroalgae and lichens. In paleontology of Ediacaran marine organisms, a frond may be defined as "a rangeomorph unit with...
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  • Avalofractus abaculus is a frond-like rangeomorph fossil described from the Ediacaran of the Trepassey Formation, Spaniard's Bay, Newfoundland. Avalofractus...
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  • Charnwood Forest of Leicestershire, England. It serves as an important rangeomorph because of its multifoliate anatomy. Its overall body plan is similar...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Spriggina is unknown; it has been variously classified as an annelid worm, a rangeomorph-like frond, a variant of Charniodiscus, a proarticulatan, an arthropod...
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    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...
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    Rangeomorph originally thought to be Charniodiscus...
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    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...
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    Primocandelabrum is a genus of rangeomorph known from the Avalon-type Ediacaran biota. It makes up the brunt of some bedding plane assemblages. Primocandelabrum...
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    It was named after Professor Misra in 2007. It represents a frondose rangeomorph, and its overall body plan shows glide reflection symmetry, which is...
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    Hapsidophyllas is a rare Ediacaran rangeomorph fossil found at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, Canada. It was first identified by Emily Bamforth and Guy...
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    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...
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  • R; Pasinneti, G; Taylor, R (2020). "Palaeobiology of the reclining rangeomorph Beothukis from the Ediacaran Mistaken Point Formation of southeastern...
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    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...
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    Donoghue, Philip C. J.; Liu, Alexander G. (2019). "Anatomy of the Ediacaran rangeomorph Charnia masoni". Papers in Palaeontology. 5 (1): 157–176. Bibcode:2019PPal...
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    organisms flat. These organisms appear to form two groups: the fractal rangeomorphs and the simpler erniettomorphs. Including such fossils as the iconic...
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    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...
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  • 1130/G31890.1. Kenchington, Charlotte G.; Wilby, Philip R. (January 2017). "Rangeomorph classification schemes and intra-specific variation: are all characters...
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    and Sekwi Brooke in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Deep-water rangeomorphs, and to a lesser extent arboreomorphs, dominated the Avalonian biota...
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    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...
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  • including fossils of Palaeopascichnus, Mawsonites, Hiemalora and putative rangeomorphs. Lonsdale et al. (2025) describe ribbon-like fossils from the Ediacaran...
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    Genus of rangeomorphs...
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  • with a tetraradial symmetry, bearing similarities with Rangea, another rangeomorph petalonamid. An outdated reconstruction of Bomakellia kelleri as a proto-arthropod...
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    they probably form a clade and are most likely a sister group to the rangeomorphs, which bear a similar (though fractal) construction. Placements within...
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    Greentree, C.; Trusler, P. (2009). "Reconstructing a Lost World: Ediacaran Rangeomorphs from Spaniard's Bay, Newfoundland". Journal of Paleontology. 83 (4):...
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    The Avalonian organisms are completely benthic, with a predominance of rangeomorphs, well below the photic zone, at a depth of one kilometer, which rules...
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  • Donoghue, Philip C. J.; Liu, Alexander G. (2019). "Anatomy of the Ediacaran rangeomorph Charnia masoni". Papers in Palaeontology. 5 (1): 157–176. Bibcode:2019PPal...
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  • Philip R. (2018). "Modularity and Overcompensatory Growth in Ediacaran Rangeomorphs Demonstrate Early Adaptations for Coping with Environmental Pressures"...
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