''Phyllozoon'' (lit. "Leaf animal" in Greek) is an Ediacaran imprint that resembles a
proarticulata
Proarticulata is a proposed phylum of extinct, near-bilaterally symmetrical animals known from fossils found in the Ediacaran (Vendian) marine deposits, and dates to approximately . The name comes from the Greek () = "before" and Articulata, i. ...
n 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.
See also
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List of Ediacaran genera
The existence of life, especially that of animals, before the Cambrian had long been the subject of debate in paleontology. The apparent suddenness of the Cambrian explosion had no firm explanation, and Charles Darwin himself recognized the chal ...
References
Fossils of Australia
Dipleurozoa
Ediacaran life
Fossil taxa described in 1978
Trace fossils
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