Auroralumina preserves two bifurcating polyps in a rigid organic skeleton with tentacle impressions; a morphology analysis places it within crown Cnidaria.
claim:event:auroralumina-charnwood-polypsDunn, F.S.; Kenchington, C.G.; Parry, L.A.; Clark, J.W.; Kendall, R.S.; Wilby, P.R.
taxonomy · range · morphology · topology · geochronology · biogeography · ecology
Describes Auroralumina on a single bedding-plane surface and tests a crown-cnidarian interpretation in a morphology matrix.
Auroralumina preserves two bifurcating polyps in a rigid organic skeleton with tentacle impressions; a morphology analysis places it within crown Cnidaria.
claim:event:auroralumina-charnwood-polypsAuroralumina was placed within crown Cnidaria in one morphology analysis; the profile retains that as a hypothesis rather than an ancestor claim.
claim:taxon:auroralumina:taxonomyThe profile represents one Charnwood Forest fossil surface and does not infer a global Ediacaran cnidarian distribution.
claim:taxon:auroralumina:biogeographyTentaculate polyps support a sessile feeding interpretation, while prey, colony physiology and habitat preference remain unobserved.
claim:taxon:auroralumina:ecologyBGS GSM 105875 preserves two bifurcating polyp-like tubes, a rigid organic skeleton and tentacle impressions around the apertures.
claim:taxon:auroralumina:morphologyThe 562–557 Ma interval is the bounded Bradgate Formation context of one specimen, not a cnidarian crown age or global taxon range.
claim:taxon:auroralumina:fossil-rangeThe Cnidaria root display uses 562–0 Ma as a sampled navigation envelope from the older bound of the 562–557 Ma Auroralumina horizon to living cnidarians; the fossil's crown placement is a morphology-analysis result, not the observed origin of Cnidaria.
claim:taxon:cnidaria:root-range-rc39Medusozoa is displayed at 562–0 Ma only as a stem-fossil-to-living navigation anthology: Auroralumina provides a matrix-dependent Ediacaran stem-medusozoan anchor, not a crown-Medusozoa FAD, direct ancestor or continuous global range.
claim:taxon:medusozoa:range-boundary-rc50