Charnia
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charnia-164-250223
title:
Charnia
text:
Charnia is an extinct genus of frond-like lifeforms belonging to the Ediacaran biota with segmented, leaf-like ridges branching alternately to the right and left from a zig-zag medial suture. The genus Charnia was named after Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire, England, where the first fossilised specimen was found. Charnia is significant because it was the first Precambrian fossil to be recognized as such. The living organism grew on the sea floor, 570 to 550 million years ago, and is believed
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Genus of frond-like lifeforms
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charnia
date created:
2003-08-02T16:03:13Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T19:54:35Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Charnia.png","width":969,"height":2043}
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13
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