Phyllozoon
| 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 |
| Species: | †P. hanseni |
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| 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.