Prehistoric Models: Cnidaria

Cnidarians are marine invertebrates that include sea jellies, coral, sea anenomes, sea pens and fresh water hydras. The earliest members of this group can be found in the in the late Precambrian’s Ediacaran biota some 580 million years ago. To see my fossil coral click here, or to see my modern coral to compare click here.

Domain: Eukarya – Kingdom: Animalia – Phylum: Cnidaria – Subphylum: Medusozoa

(Sea Jellies formerly Jellyfish)

Ediacaran to Holocene

Common name: Sea Jelly
Other name: Formersly “jellyfish”
TIme: Holocene, Recent
Common name: Sea Jelly
Other name: Formersly “jellyfish”
TIme: Holocene, Recent
Common name: Sea Jelly
Other name: Formersly “jellyfish”
TIme: Holocene, Recent
Common name: Sea Jelly
Other name: Formersly “jellyfish”
TIme: Holocene, Recent

Domain: Eukarya – Kingdom: Animalia – Phylum: Cnidaria – Class: Hexacorallia – Order: Actiniaria

(Sea Anemone)

Late Cambrian to Holocene

Common name: Sea Anemone
Time: Holocene, Recent
Common name: Sea Anemone
Time: Holocene, Recent
Common name: Sea Anemone
Time: Holocene, Recent

Domain: Eukarya – Kingdom: Animalia – Superphylum: Vendobionta – Phylum: Petalonamae

(frondomorphs)

Ediacaran to Cambrian

Genus: Charnia ‭”‬named after the Charnwood forest in England where the frist specimens were found‭”
Pronounced: Char-ne-ah
Species: C,‭ ‬masoni‭ (‬type‭)‬,‭ ‬C.‭ ‬grandis,‭ ‬C.‭ ‬siberica
Named By: Trevor D.‭ ‬Ford‭ ‬-‭ ‬1958
Classification: Domian: Eukaryota – Kingdom: Animalia – Superphylum: Vendobionta – Phylum: Petalonamae
Known locations: Australia.‭ ‬Canada.‭ ‬England.‭ ‬Russia.
Size: Holotype:‭ ‬19‭ ‬centimeters long,‭ ‬largest recorded individuals from Newfoundland approach up to‭ ‬2‭ ‬meters
Time period: Ediacaran,‭ ‬roughly‭ ‬575-544‭ ‬million years ago
Diet: Possibly absorbed nutrients from water

The video below is from my YouTube Jurassic James 65:

Update! The purple Charnia is a different phylum not a sea pen.

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