Charnia grandis Glaessner and Wade 1966

Eumetazoa - Rangeomorpha

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

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