Phyllozoon

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Phyllozoon
Temporal range: 635–541  Ma
Phyllozoon hanseni 1.jpg
Tracks left behind by a Phyllozoon and Aulozoon (bottom)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
†Petalonamae
Class:
†Erniettomorpha
Genus:
†Phyllozoon

Jenkins and Gehling, 1978 [1]
Species:
†P. hanseni
Binomial name
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. [2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Jenkins, R. J. F.; Gehling, J. G. (1978). "A review of the frond-like fossils of the Ediacara assemblage". Records of the South Australian Museum. 17 (23): 347–359.
  2. ↑ Ivantsov, A. Yu. (2011). "Feeding traces of proarticulata—the Vendian metazoa". Paleontological Journal. 45 (3): 237–248. Bibcode:2011PalJ...45..237I. doi:10.1134/S0031030111030063. ISSN   0031-0301. S2CID   128741869.


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