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A crown-group cnidarian from the Ediacaran of Charnwood Forest, UK

Dunn, F.S.; Kenchington, C.G.; Parry, L.A.; Clark, J.W.; Kendall, R.S.; Wilby, P.R.

Year2022
Source roleprimary-study
DOI / ID10.1038/s41559-022-01807-x

Fitness and scope

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.

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topology · medium

Auroralumina preserves two bifurcating polyps in a rigid organic skeleton with tentacle impressions; a morphology analysis places it within crown Cnidaria.

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taxonomy · medium

Auroralumina was placed within crown Cnidaria in one morphology analysis; the profile retains that as a hypothesis rather than an ancestor claim.

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biogeography · medium

The profile represents one Charnwood Forest fossil surface and does not infer a global Ediacaran cnidarian distribution.

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ecology · medium

Tentaculate polyps support a sessile feeding interpretation, while prey, colony physiology and habitat preference remain unobserved.

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morphology · medium

BGS GSM 105875 preserves two bifurcating polyp-like tubes, a rigid organic skeleton and tentacle impressions around the apertures.

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fossil-range · medium

The 562–557 Ma interval is the bounded Bradgate Formation context of one specimen, not a cnidarian crown age or global taxon range.

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fossil-range · medium

The 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.

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fossil-range · medium

Medusozoa 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.

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