Charnia masoni

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: †Charnia masoni

Charnia masoni Ford, 1958

• Charnia masoni Ford, 1958: 212
• Rangea grandis Glaessner & Wade, 1966: 616
• Rangea sibirica Solokov, 1972: pl. I, fig. 3
• Glaessnerina grandis: Germs, 1973: 5
• Glaessnerina sibirica: Glaessner, 1979: fig. 12 (1)
• Zolotytsia biserialis Fedonkin, 1981: 67–68, pl. 3, fig. 7

• 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. 
• 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 .
• Glaessner, M.F. & Wade, M. 1966. The late Precambrian fossils from Ediacara, South Australia. Palaeontology 9(4): 599–628. BHL 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 .

• 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. 
• 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.  [C. grandis removed from synonymy]