Aspidella). Other rangeomorphs (such as the spindle-shaped Fractofusus) lay flat on the sediment surface. Though we do not know what rangeomorphs were, aspects...

conform to the branching pattern of their host branch, unlike other rangeomorphs that conform to the branching pattern of their neighboring folia. The...

flexible in response to environmental conditions. In contrast with other rangeomorphs, which have wide distributions, Avalofractus seems to have been an endemic...

et al. (2014, 2015) instead suggest that it is the decayed remains of rangeomorphs. The fossils take the form of a triangle with a central depression, suggesting...

developmental biology of Charnia and the eumetazoan affinity of the Ediacaran rangeomorphs". Science Advances. 7 (30) eabe0291. Bibcode:2021SciA....7..291D. doi:10...

detailed analysis of the morphology and growth of Charnia concluded that rangeomorphs like Charnia were early diverging eumetazoans that were not closely related...

unclassified and poorly understood group of Ediacaran organisms known as the Rangeomorphs exhibit fractal symmetry. While the classification of viruses as an "organism"...

pairs, but offset each other alternately; like the segments of many rangeomorphs. They show a front and a back end, the footprints indicate some capacity...

Charniidae is a family of rangeomorphs. It is the only non-monotypic family of Rangeomorpha. From the Ediacaran of Australia, Canada, Russia and the United...

such as rangeomorphs, and some macroalgae and lichens. In paleontology of Ediacaran marine organisms, a frond may be defined as "a rangeomorph unit with...

mode of Pectinifrons now remains unknown, the fronds or frondlets of rangeomorphs may have been adapted for oxygen uptake and gas exchange instead. It...

that it cannot be placed in this phylum. It was also compared to the rangeomorphs, frondose members of the Ediacara biota that may represent a separate...

known rangeomorphs and spanned over one meter in length. Longest specimens of T. wardae reached 185 cm (73 in). It is a long and slender rangeomorph, its...

leaflet structure is dissimilar to other known rangeomorphs, Bamforth and Narbonne describe it as a new rangeomorph form, called hapsidophyllid. The only other...

fertilized eggs. Stolon-based reproduction is thought to have been used by Rangeomorphs in the Ediacaran period. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Plant...

frondose organism, with a feather duster like morphology. Like most rangeomorphs, they have a holdfast structure, which can get up to 7.8 cm (3.1 in)...

this way. The F. grandis has multibranching that differs from the other rangeomorphs that have been discovered. They have frond-like leaflets that are flexible...

Genus of rangeomorphs...

Genus of rangeomorphs...

The rangeomorph Charnia. The actual nature or phylogeny of the rangeomorph is not known, leading to form taxa only...

A diorama depicting life during the Ediacaran period. This includes jellyfish, rangeomorphs, dickinsoniomorpha and etc....

and Sekwi Brooke in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Deep-water rangeomorphs, and to a lesser extent arboreomorphs, dominated the Avalonian biota...

they probably form a clade and are most likely a sister group to the rangeomorphs, which bear a similar (though fractal) construction. Placements within...

Greentree, C.; Trusler, P. (2009). "Reconstructing a Lost World: Ediacaran Rangeomorphs from Spaniard's Bay, Newfoundland". Journal of Paleontology. 83 (4):...

organisms, that is, the roots or stalks that held them to the sea bed. Rangeomorphs consist of branching "frond" elements, each a few centimeters long, each...

Donoghue, Philip C. J.; Liu, Alexander G. (2019). "Anatomy of the Ediacaran rangeomorph Charnia masoni". Papers in Palaeontology. 5 (1): 157–176. Bibcode:2019PPal...

Ediacaran fossil with six-fold radial symmetry. It is the type genus of the rangeomorphs. Rangea was the first complex Precambrian macrofossil named and described...

organisms flat. These organisms appear to form two groups: the fractal rangeomorphs and the simpler erniettomorphs. Including such fossils as the iconic...

not fall obviously within one of the main form taxa of Ediacarans, the rangeomorphs, the erniettomorphs, and the trilobozoans, but it is also not obviously...

redescription consider that Akrophyllas could show that the arboreomorphs and rangeomorphs are more closely related than originally thought, or than certain features...

It was named after Professor Misra in 2007. It represents a frondose rangeomorph, and its overall body plan shows glide reflection symmetry, which is...

and kimberellomorph genera. The Avalon module primarily consists of rangeomorphs. The Nama cluster includes Ediacaran-type fossils and carbonate compressions...

Ediacaran, providing rare insights into the ontogeny and ecology of the rangeomorphs. The fossils from this formation for a number of decades were considered...

Ernietta (for example, Pteridinium, Swartpuntia, and Mietta) than to the rangeomorphs. Ernietta has been considered a benthic shallow marine fossil comparable...

Muirhead‐Hunt, Heléna; McIlroy, Duncan (November 2025). "Aninoides: a new rangeomorph genus from the upper Ediacaran of Newfoundland". Papers in Palaeontology...

Bamforth, Emily L.; Narbonne, Guy M. (November 2009). "New ediacaran rangeomorphs from Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, Canada". Journal of Paleontology....

this time the affinities of this group were unclear, and a link to the rangeomorphs had been proposed. The response to Whittington's redescription can be...

Greentree, C., and Trusler, P. (2009) Reconstructing a lost world: Ediacaran rangeomorphs from Spaniard's Bay, Newfoundland. Journal of Paleontology Vol 83(4):...

Philip R. (2018). "Modularity and Overcompensatory Growth in Ediacaran Rangeomorphs Demonstrate Early Adaptations for Coping with Environmental Pressures"...

 China A site from the terminal Ediacaran that preserves metazoans, rangeomorphs, and algal remains in Burgess-type preservation. Belongs to the larger...

R; Pasinneti, G; Taylor, R (2020). "Palaeobiology of the reclining rangeomorph Beothukis from the Ediacaran Mistaken Point Formation of southeastern...

process of separating from the organism, potentially indicating that rangeomorphs had true modularity and the ability to separate modules as an asexual...

The Avalonian organisms are completely benthic, with a predominance of rangeomorphs, well below the photic zone, at a depth of one kilometer, which rules...

Philip C. J. Donoghue; Alexander G. Liu (2019). "Anatomy of the Ediacaran rangeomorph Charnia masoni". Papers in Palaeontology. 5 (1): 157–176. Bibcode:2019PPal...

Member. These preserves a wide range of fossil forms, from the first rangeomorph fronds with Burgess Shale-type preservation in the Tongshan, to the first...

the White Sea assemblage, was dominated by erniettomorphs, although rangeomorphs, arboreomorphs and dipleurozoans were also present. While the Late Ediacaran...

1130/G31890.1. Kenchington, Charlotte G.; Wilby, Philip R. (January 2017). "Rangeomorph classification schemes and intra-specific variation: are all characters...

been a pseudofossil, a gas escape structure or perhaps the result of a rangeomorph holdfast being pulled by currents or, if any of these possibilities are...

Dunn et al. (2021), who interpret their findings as indicating that rangeomorphs were members of the stem group of Eumetazoa. A study aiming to identify...

Bamforth, Emily L.; Narbonne, Guy M. (November 2009). "New ediacaran rangeomorphs from Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, Canada". Journal of Paleontology....

Bonavista Peninsula there is higher diversity, including more fronds (rangeomorphs) and better preserved than on Avalon Peninsula. Earth sciences portal...

including fossils of Palaeopascichnus, Mawsonites, Hiemalora and putative rangeomorphs. Lonsdale et al. (2025) describe ribbon-like fossils from the Ediacaran...

"A re-assessment of the taxonomy, palaeobiology and taphonomy of the rangeomorph organism Hapsidophyllas flexibilis from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland...

Trusler, Peter (July 2009). "Reconstructing a lost world: Ediacaran rangeomorphs from Spaniard's Bay, Newfoundland". Journal of Paleontology. 83 (4):...

providing possible evidence of a previously unknown reproductive strategy of rangeomorphs. Cao, Meng & Cai (2024) use electrochemical methods to simulate the process...

Donoghue, Philip C. J.; Liu, Alexander G. (2019). "Anatomy of the Ediacaran rangeomorph Charnia masoni". Papers in Palaeontology. 5 (1): 157–176. Bibcode:2019PPal...

consider at least the rangeomorphs and dickinsoniomorphs to be metazoans. A study on the phylogenetic relationships of the rangeomorphs is published by Dececchi...

with a tetraradial symmetry, bearing similarities with Rangea, another rangeomorph petalonamid. An outdated reconstruction of Bomakellia kelleri as a proto-arthropod...

organisms to photosynthesize. Parviscopa is unique because it does not have rangeomorph branching like many of the other Avalonian taxa. Although Parviscopa...

testing the suggested link between the appearance of large body size in rangeomorphs (organisms of uncertain phylogenetic placement, likely animals) in the...

(October 2018). "Modularity and Overcompensatory Growth in Ediacaran Rangeomorphs Demonstrate Early Adaptations for Coping with Environmental Pressures"...

& Narbonne Ediacaran Canada ( Newfoundland and Labrador) A mop-like rangeomorph. The type species is P. hofmanni. Pontosphaera veta Sp. nov Valid Bown...

Butterfield (2022). "Constructional and functional anatomy of Ediacaran rangeomorphs". Geological Magazine. 159 (7): 1148–1159. Bibcode:2022GeoM..159.1148B...

Chen, Z.; Wang, X.; Zhou, C.; Wan, B.; Yuan, X.; Xiao, S. (2022). "The rangeomorph fossil Charnia from the Ediacaran Shibantan biota in the Yangtze Gorges...

Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Rangea Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Gürich Ediacaran Namibia A rangeomorph. The type species is R. schneiderhoehni...

; Pasinetti, G.; Taylor, R. (2022). "Palaeobiology of the reclining rangeomorph Beothukis from the Ediacaran Mistaken Point Formation of southeastern...