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Phyllozoon
Description | 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 making organism moved. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllozoon, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||
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Source Data |
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Rank | genus | |||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Cnidaria : Phyllozoon | |||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||
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Scientific Name | Phyllozoon Jenkins & Gehling, 1978 | |||||||
Name Published In | Record S. Aust. Mus. 17 (23) | |||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllozoon |
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Phyllozoon hanseni species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB |
References
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Record S. Aust. Mus. 17 (23) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!