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]
| Phyllozoon Temporal range: Ediacaran
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| Tracks left behind by a Phyllozoon and Aulozoon (bottom) | |
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| Genus: | †Phyllozoon Jenkins and Gehling, 1978[1]
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| Species: | †P. hanseni
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| Phyllozoon hanseni Jenkins and Gehling, 1978
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ 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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