Phyllozoon

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Phyllozoon
Temporal range: 635–541 Ma Ediacaran
File:Phyllozoon hanseni 1.jpg
Tracks left behind by a Phyllozoon and Aulozoon (bottom)
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Phyllozoon

Jenkins and Gehling, 1978[1]
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]

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