Phyllozoon

{{update|reason=This is not necessarily a trace fossil, see for instance [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/geological-magazine/article/phyllozoon-and-aulozoon-key-components-of-a-novel-ediacaran-death-assemblage-in-bathtub-gorge-heysen-range-south-australia/DB97A723C1884C65499D90417B4627E7 Gehling & Runnegar 2021]|date=May 2025|updated=June 2011}}

{{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{{cite journal|first1=R. J. F.|last1=Jenkins|first2=J. G.|last2=Gehling|year=1978|title=A review of the frond-like fossils of the Ediacara assemblage|journal=Records of the South Australian Museum|volume=17|issue=23|pages=347–359|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40878882}}

| 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. |bibcode = 2011PalJ...45..237I |s2cid = 128741869 }}