Alternative combination: Rangea grandis
Full reference: M. F. Glaessner and M. Wade. 1966. The late Precambrian fossils from Ediacara, South Australia. Palaeontology 9(4):599-628
Belongs to Charnia according to R. J. F. Jenkins and J. G. Gehling 1978
See also Fedonkin et al. 2007, Hofmann et al. 2008 and Wu et al. 2025
Sister taxa: Charnia ewinoni, Charnia gracilis, Charnia masoni, Charnia siberica, Pseudovendia charnwoodensis, Shepshedia palmata, Blackbrookia oaksi
Type specimen: P12897. Its type locality is Ediacara Range, which is in an Ediacaran open shallow subtidal sandstone in the Rawnsley Quartzite Formation of Australia.
Ecology: stationary upper-level epifaunal osmotroph
Distribution:
• Ediacaran of Australia (1 collection), Canada (1: Newfoundland and Labrador), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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