Phyllozoon

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]

Phyllozoon Temporal range: 635–541 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Ediacaran
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

See also

• List of Ediacaran genera