''Epibaion'' is a

trace fossil A trace fossil, also called an ichnofossil (; ), is a fossil record of biological activity by lifeforms, but not the preserved remains of the organism itself. Trace fossils contrast with body fossils, which are the fossilized remains of part ...

imprint of the

Ediacaran The Ediacaran ( ) is a geological period of the Neoproterozoic geologic era, Era that spans 96 million years from the end of the Cryogenian Period at 635 Million years ago, Mya to the beginning of the Cambrian Period at 538.8 Mya. It is the last ...

animals of the phylum Proarticulata, which became extinct in the Precambrian. Imprints often occurring in chains, that is interpreted as a feeding trace; some chains terminate in a body fossil, allowing their maker to be identified. Several specimens are known; ''E. waggoneris'' was produced by '' Yorgia waggoneri''; ''E. costatus'' by ''

Dickinsonia ''Dickinsonia'' is a genus of extinct organism that lived during the late Ediacaran period in what is now Australia, China, Russia, and Ukraine. It had a round, bilaterally symmetric body with multiple segments running along it. It could range f ...

costata'', and ''E. axiferus'', the type species, has as yet not been found with a trace-maker. It is proposed that the Australian fossil '' Phyllozoon'' is also a feeding trace of Proarticulata.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5382415 Proarticulata Fossil taxa described in 2002

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