Epibaion

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title: "Epibaion" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["proarticulata", "fossil-taxa-described-in-2002", "trace-fossils"] topic_path: "general/proarticulata" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epibaion" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

| fossil_range =Ediacaran, around | taxon = Epibaion | authority = Ivantsov, 2002 | subdivision_ranks = Ichnospecies | subdivision = {{Species list | Epibaion axiferus | Ivantsov, 2002 (type) | Epibaion waggoneris | Ivantsov, 2011 | Epibaion costatus | Ivantsov, 2011 ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Yorgia_trace.jpg" caption="''Epibaion waggoneris'', chain of trace platforms and the imprint of the body of ''[[Yorgia]] 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 occur in chains, which 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.

References

Ivantsov, A.Y.. (2002). "Giant Traces of Vendian Animals". Doklady Earth Sciences. link
(2011). "Feeding traces of Proarticulata — the Vendian metazoa". [[Paleontological Journal]].
Andrey Yu. Ivantsov. (2013). "Trace Fossils of Precambrian Metazoans "Vendobionta" and "Mollusks"". [[Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation]].

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