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Morphology and taphonomy of an Ediacaran frond: Charnia from the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland
Abstract The Ediacaran frond Charnia , known mainly from fragmentary leaf-like fronds from around the world, is represented by completely preserved specimens with holdfasts in the Mistaken Point biota of Newfoundland. Previous reconstructions of Charnia from two-dimensional impressions were significantly oversimplified, resulting in three-dimensional reconstructions which highlighted a sheet-like morphology. Overlapping relationships and internal structures are rarely (if ever) preserved, and only through detailed photography together with both landmark and traditional morphometric analyses of numerous complete Charnia specimens can the preservational biases be removed. Charnia is reinterpreted here as having a series of individual overlapping primary branches attached to an internal central stalk, and with individual branches constrained by an internal, organic skeleton and/or attachments between adjacent branches. Three species, C. masoni Ford 1958 , C. wardi Narbonne & Gehling 2003 , and C. antecedens sp. nov. can be distinguished on the basis of length/width ratios and the degree of attachment of adjacent branches. Morphological, taphonomical, and ecological studies at Mistaken Point imply that Charnia was a sessile, epibenthic frond that fed from suspension in this deep-water volcaniclastic setting. Evolution of more rigorous connections between the primary branches allowed Charnia to migrate into more turbulent, shallower-water habitats by the late Ediacaran.
Abstract The Boot Inlet Formation (Reynolds Point Group, Shaler Supergroup) is an early Neoproterozoic (< 1077 MA, >723 Ma) succession that crops out within the Minto Inlier on northern Victoria Island in the Canadian Arctic archipelago, and consists of strata that accumulated on a carbonate ramp. Inner-ramp facies comprise molar-tooth lime mudstone and current-bedded ooid grainstone (locally herringbone cross-laminated) with scalloped erosional surfaces. Ooid shoals ( 3–4 m thick) and sheets (0.5–1.0 m thick) are interbedded with 10–15 m thick stromatolite bioherms and biostromes forming complexes 0.5 to 5.0 km wide. The most common mid-ramp facies is parted to ribbon-bedded limestone with conspicuous ripples, gutter casts, hummocky cross-stratification, and intraformational breccias readily interprétable as storm deposits; these finegrained rocks form shallowing-upward, meter-scale cycles capped by oolitic limestone and small reefs. Outer-ramp facies comprise shale with large carbonate concretions. Reefs are most common in the lower half of the succession, where overall sea-level rise combined with higher-order transgressions to produce maximum accommodation space. A pronounced zonation of reef types occurs across the ramp. A current-oriented biostrome of Baicalia? is the only reef type on the inner ramp. Patch reefs and table reefs characterize the inner- to mid-ramp transition, and consist of stacked meter-scale bushes of Tungussia that pass upward into broad domal sheets of parallel, columnar stromatolites (Baicalia) oriented at a high angle to the sheets. Overall upward decrease in diversity of growth form is accompanied by evidence for increasing wave and current energy. Concentric-sheet bioherms up to 60 m in diameter and 15 m high, composed of sheets of closely spaced “pencil stromatolites” (Jurusania), grew in outer-ramp facies during rapid transgression. The Boot Inlet reefs are similar to other Prolerozoic reefs in being composed entirely of stromatolites, including some of the same forms as characterize other early Neoproterozoic patch reefs. Calcimicrobes are conspicuously absent, despite their abundance in coeval deeper-water reefs in the Mackenzie Mountains. The presence of kalyptra-like stromatolitic structures in the Boot Inlet reefs is similar to that of Early Cambrian calcimicrobe-archaeocyathan reefs, and lends support for the view that the Phanerozoic reef archetype originated during the Neoproterozoic.