Phyllozoon

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Trace fossil

Phyllozoon Temporal range: 635–541 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Ediacaran
Tracks left behind by a Phyllozoon and Aulozoon (bottom)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	†Petalonamae
Class:	†Erniettomorpha
Genus:	†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

• List of Ediacaran genera

References

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

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