Rangeomorph
Form taxon of frondose Ediacaran fossils / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The rangeomorphs are a form taxon of frondose Ediacaran fossils that are united by a similarity to Rangea. Some researchers, such as Pflug and Narbonne, suggest that a natural taxon Rangeomorpha may include all similar-looking fossils. Rangeomorphs appear to have had an effective reproductive strategy, based on analysis of the distribution pattern of Fractofusus misrai, which consisted of sending out a waterborne asexual propagule to a distant area, and then spreading rapidly from there, just as plants today spread by stolons or runners.[1][2]
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Rangeomorph | |
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Charnia masoni, a rangeomorph | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | †Petalonamae |
Clade: | †Rangeomorpha Hofmann et al., 2008 |
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Rangeomorphs are a key part of the Ediacaran biota, which survived about 30 million years, until the base of the Cambrian, which was 538.8 million years ago. They were especially abundant in the early Ediacaran Mistaken Point assemblage found in Newfoundland.[3]