''Phyllozoon''(lit. "Leaf animal" in greek) is an Ediacaran imprint that resembles a
proarticulata
Proarticulata is a proposed phylum of extinct, 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.e. pr ...
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
This is a list of all described Ediacaran genera, including the Ediacaran biota. It contains 227 genera.
References
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Ediacaran
The Ediacaran Period ( ) is a geological period that spans 96 million years from the end ...
References
Fossils of Australia
Dipleurozoa
Ediacaran life
Fossil taxa described in 1978
Trace fossils
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