Phyllozoon Temporal range: Ediacaran
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Tracks left behind by a Phyllozoon and Aulozoon (bottom) | |
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†Phyllozoon Jenkins and Gehling, 1978
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†P. hanseni
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Phyllozoon hanseni Jenkins and Gehling, 1978
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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]