Phyllozoon
Temporal range: Ediacaran
Tracks left behind by a Phyllozoon and Aulozoon (bottom)
Scientific classification
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Phyllozoon

Jenkins and Gehling, 1978[1]
Species:
P. hanseni
Binomial name
Phyllozoon hanseni
Jenkins and Gehling, 1978

Phyllozoon (lit. "Leaf animal" in greek) is an Ediacaran imprint that resembles a proarticulatan and has been interpreted as a feeding trace. It usually occurs in long chains of imprints formed, presumably as the organism that made it moved.[2]

See also

References

  1. R. J. F. Jenkins and J. G. Gehling. 1978. A review of the frond-like fossils of the Ediacara assemblage. Records of the South Australian Museum 17(23): p. 347-359
  2. Ivantsov, A. Yu. (2011). "Feeding traces of proarticulata—the Vendian metazoa". Paleontological Journal. 45 (3): 237–248. doi:10.1134/S0031030111030063. ISSN 0031-0301. S2CID 128741869.


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