Phyllozoon
Phyllozoon 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.[1]
Phyllozoon | |
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Tracks left behind by a Phyllozoon | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Clade: | †Erniettomorpha |
Genus: | †Phyllozoon Jenkins and Gehling, 1978 |
Species: | †P. hanseni |
Binomial name | |
†Phyllozoon hanseni Jenkins and Gehling, 1978 | |
See also
References
- Ivantsov, A. Yu. (2011). "Feeding traces of proarticulata—the Vendian metazoa". Paleontological Journal. 45 (3): 237–248. doi:10.1134/S0031030111030063. ISSN 0031-0301.
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