Epibaion

{{Ichnobox

| fossil_range =Ediacaran,
around {{fossil range|558|555}}

| taxon = Epibaion

| authority = Ivantsov, 2002

| subdivision_ranks = Ichnospecies

| subdivision = {{Species list

| Epibaion axiferus | Ivantsov, 2002 (type)

| Epibaion waggoneris | Ivantsov, 2011

| Epibaion costatus | Ivantsov, 2011

}}

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Image:Yorgia trace.jpg waggoneri (right), which created these traces.]]

Epibaion is a trace fossil imprint of the Ediacaran animals of the phylum Proarticulata, which became extinct in the Precambrian. Imprints often occurring in chains, that is interpreted as a feeding trace; some chains terminate in a body fossil, allowing their maker to be identified. Several specimens are known; E. waggoneris was produced by Yorgia waggoneri; E. costatus by Dickinsonia costata, and E. axiferus, the type species, has as yet not been found with a trace-maker. It is proposed that the Australian fossil Phyllozoon is also a feeding trace of Proarticulata.{{cite journal

|author = Ivantsov, A.Y.

|author2 = Malakhovskaya, Y.E.

|year = 2002

|title = Giant Traces of Vendian Animals

|journal = Doklady Earth Sciences

|volume = 385

|issue = 6

|pages = 618–622

|url = http://vend.paleo.ru/pub/Ivantsov_et_Malakhovskaya_2002-e.pdf

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070704183947/http://vend.paleo.ru/pub/Ivantsov_et_Malakhovskaya_2002-e.pdf

|archive-date = 2007-07-04

}}{{Cite journal | last1 = Ivantsov | first1 = A. Y. | title = Feeding traces of Proarticulata — the Vendian metazoa | doi = 10.1134/S0031030111030063 | journal = Paleontological Journal | volume = 45 | issue = 3 | pages = 237–248 | year = 2011 | s2cid = 128741869 | url = https://www.academia.edu/2394670}}{{cite journal|author=Andrey Yu. Ivantsov| year=2013|title=Trace Fossils of Precambrian Metazoans "Vendobionta" and "Mollusks"| journal=Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation| volume=21| issue=3| pages=252–264| url=https://www.academia.edu/3757185| doi=10.1134/S0869593813030039| bibcode=2013SGC....21..252I| s2cid=128638405}}

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