Charnia

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Amorphea
Cladus: Obazoa
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Cladus: Filozoa
Cladus: Choanozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: incertae sedis
Phylum: †Petalonamae
Classis: †Rangeomorpha
Genus: †Charnia
Species: †C. brasieri – †C. ewinoni – †C. gracilis – †C. grandis – †C. masoni

Charnia Ford, 1958: 212

Type species: Charnia masoni Ford, 1958, by original designation.

• Glaessnerina Germs, 1973: 5
  • Type species: Rangea grandis Glaessner & Wade, 1966, by original designation.
• Zolotytsia Fedonkin, 1981: 67
  • Type species: Zolotytsia biserialis Fedonkin, 1981 [= Charnia masoni Ford, 1958], by original designation.

• Fedonkin, M.A. 1981. Беломорская биота венда (докембрийская бесскелетная фауна севера Русской платформы). [White Sea biota of Vendian (Precambrian non-skeletal fauna of the Russian Platform North).] Trudy Geologicheckogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 342: 1–100. (in Russian). PDF.
• Ford, T.D. 1958. Pre-Cambrian fossils from Charnwood Forest. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 31(3): 211–217. DOI: 10.1144/pygs.31.3.211 . Reference page. 
• Germs, G.J.B. 1973. A reinterpretation of Rangea schneiderhoehni and the discovery of a related new fossil from the Nama Group, South West Africa. Lethaia 6(1): 1–9. DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.1973.tb00870.x .

• Antcliffe, J.B. & Brasier, M.D. 2007. Charnia and sea pens are poles apart. Journal of the Geological Society 164(1): 49–51. DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492006-080 . Reference page. 
• Dunn, F.S., Wilby, P.R., Kenchington, C.G., Grazhdankin, D.V., Donoghue, P.C.J. & Liu, A.G. 2018 (Online) 2019 (Print). Anatomy of the Ediacaran rangeomorph Charnia masoni. Papers in Palaeontology 5(1): 157–176. DOI: 10.1002/spp2.1234 . Reference page. 
• Glaessner, M.F. 1979. Biogeography and Biostratigraphy. Precambrian. Pp. A79–A118. In: Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part A, Introduction, Fossilization (Taphonomy) Biogeography and Biostratigraphy. Boulder, Colorado and Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas. xxiii + 569 pp. DOI: 10.17161/dt.v0i0.5534 .
• McIlroy, D., Pérez-Pinedo, D., Rosse-Guillevic, S., Muirhead-Hunt, S., Taylor, R.S. & Dufour, S.C. 2025. Growth and disparity of form in the Ediacaran genus Charnia, with description of Charnia brasieri sp. nov. from the Ediacaran of Avalonia. Precambrian Research 431: 107947. DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2025.107947 . [Corrigendum: 432: 107976. DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2025.107976 .] Reference page. 
• Pasinetti, G., Fitzgerald, H.G., Pérez-Pinedo, D. & McIlroy, D. 2025. A new species of Charnia from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland reveals novel insights on the taxonomy, palaeobiology and palaeoecology of the Charnida (Rangeomorpha). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 23(1): 2468193. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2025.2468193 . Reference page.