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 | |
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| 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
- 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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