Phyllozoon

Phyllozoon 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.[1]

Phyllozoon
Temporal range: Ediacaran
Tracks left behind by a Phyllozoon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Clade: †Erniettomorpha
Genus: †Phyllozoon
Jenkins and Gehling, 1978
Species:
†P. hanseni
Binomial name
†Phyllozoon hanseni
Jenkins and Gehling, 1978

See also

References
  1. Ivantsov, A. Yu. (2011). "Feeding traces of proarticulata—the Vendian metazoa". Paleontological Journal. 45 (3): 237–248. doi:10.1134/S0031030111030063. ISSN 0031-0301.


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