Phyllozoon

{{Short description|Trace fossil}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|635|541}} Ediacaran

| image = Phyllozoon hanseni 1.jpg

| image_caption = Tracks left behind by a Phyllozoon and Aulozoon (bottom)

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = {{extinct}}Petalonamae

| classis = {{extinct}}Erniettomorpha

| genus = {{extinct}}Phyllozoon

| genus_authority = Jenkins and Gehling, 1978 R. J. F. Jenkins and J. G. Gehling. 1978. A review of the frond-like fossils of the Ediacara assemblage. Records of the South Australian Museum 17(23): p. 347-359

| species = {{extinct}}P. hanseni

| binomial = Phyllozoon hanseni

| binomial_authority = 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.{{Cite journal

| issn = 0031-0301 |journal = Paleontological Journal |year= 2011| volume= 45| issue= 3| pages= 237–248| doi=10.1134/S0031030111030063

|title = Feeding traces of proarticulata—the Vendian metazoa |last1 = Ivantsov |first1 = A. Yu. |s2cid = 128741869 }}