Phyllozoon

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
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]

References

^ 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
^ 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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[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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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

See also

References