Phyllozoon
 | This article needs to be updated. The reason given is: This is not necessarily a trace fossil, see for instance Gehling & Runnegar 2021. (May 2025) |
| 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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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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ 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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