#Charnia

[shibesky]

Would the dungeon trudgers eat Cambrian critters? Probably.

[barghest-land]

moooooore flocking: diictodon, megarachne, revueltosaurus and charnia

[voidarkana]

Super cambrian (and pre-cambrian) aquarium world...

Featuring the new creatures Arandaspis and Hallucigenia, and the new blocks Wiwaxia and Charnia, as well as a fresh new look for Sacabambaspis 🙏 Also featuring Aquarium Glass from Fintastic (what used to be Yet Another Fish Mod because Curseforge doesn't like when you put the word "mod" in your title)

[alex-fictus]

C is for...?

All of the C names in my Paleo Party! Any I'm missing? (Cambrypachycope is in the works, I will bring this little hellion into sticker form)

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[impulseimpact]

paleostream flocking 14th of february 2025

diictodon megarachne charnia revueltosaurus

[isimp4shrimp]

My first paleostream flocking :) thank you @barghest-land for always posting your beautiful art and luring me into this discord

[ppaleoartistgallery]

#Paleostream 15/02/2025

here's today's #Paleostream sketches!!!

today we drew Diictodon, Megarachne, Revueltosaurus, and Charnia

[bobnichollsart]

WELCOME TO EDIACARAN MISTAKEN POINT (565Ma). If you thought this environment was like a miniature forest of sea pens, think again. The palaeontologists at MUNPaleobiology are redescribing these wonderful creatures and some, such as Charnia, are now reclining!

[palaeosinensis]

Alright science art and paleo art folks go gentle on me. If I was to do these for a gallery showing I think I'd need at least a couple of weeks for research and notes alone. More if I reached out to researchers for paper access and feedback. Speculative armored invertebrates, Dickinsonia, speculative medusa, Charnia, Spriggina, Kimberella, Arkarua, & their trace fossils.

[veloci-raptor]

Flocking Together

Diictodon/Megarachne

Revueltosaurus/Charnia

[styllwaters]

Attack for @leensor!

[alittlemonstersart]

hi girls

[palaeoiris]

Transgeder Pride Flag+Charnia sketch for the Trans Visibility Week.

Personal use with credit welcome and encouraged ^^

[alex-fictus]

Do mah boy, Charnia

So good to see some Ediacaran critters get love!!

Charnia masoni Lived 570-550 million years ago Found in England, Australia, Russia, and Canada

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[funcambrianfacts]

Fun Cambrian fact #13!

[katborg82]

In 1957, schoolboy Roger Mason and his friends were rock climbing in Charnwood Forest in central England where they stumbled across a strange leaf-like pattern embedded in the rocks. The unusual fossil was brought to the attention of local geologist Trevor Ford, who published the discovery in the Journal of the Yorkshire Geological Society. This fossil is particularly fascinating as the rock layers in the area are known to be Precambrian in age. A time previously thought to be prior to the appearance of complex life.

Charnia (named after the Charnwood Forest in which it was discovered) was an unusual frond-like lifeform from the late Ediacaran period, 570-550 Mya. It had segmented leaf-like ridges branching out from the center asymmetrically, indicating it likely evolved before bilateral symmetry, a feature present in nearly every living thing today. Specimens have been found ranging anywhere from 1cm to 66cm in length. It lived on the sea floor feeding on nutrients in the water, and despite its plant-like appearance, the nature of the fossil beds it was discovered in indicates it lived too deep to effectively photosynthesize like plants do. Instead, our current understanding of the lifeform places it as an early member of the animal kingdom.

Charnia is a significant discovery as it is the first Precambrian fossil to be identified as such, completely changing our understanding of how life came to be. So little is currently known about Ediacaran biota that we don't know how or even if these creatures are related to life today.