Editing Microdictyon (section)

{{Short description|Extinct genus of lobopodian worm}}

{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Cambrian Stage 3|Middle Cambrian}}<!-- only include exact numbers if these can be supported by a reference.-->
| image = 20210915 Microdictyon sinicum diagrammatic reconstruction.png
| image_caption = Diagrammatic reconstruction of ''Microdictyon sinicum''
| image2 = Molting in Microdictyon sinicum from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte.png
| image2_caption = ''Microdictyon sinicum'' fossil<ref name="chen2024" />
| taxon = Microdictyon
| authority = Bengtson, Matthews & Missarzhevsky, 1986
| type_species = '''''Microdictyon effusum'''''
| type_species_authority = Bengtson, Matthews & Missarzhevsky, 1986
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = *See text
}}

{{langnf|el|'''Microdictyon'''|small net|links=no}} is an extinct genus of [[Lobopodia|lobopodian]] worm characterized by its net-like [[sclerite]] armour plates, known from [[Cambrian]] deposits around the world. Soft-bodied fossils which preserve more than the sclerites are only known from the [[Maotianshan Shales|Chengjiang Lagerstätte]] of [[Yunnan]], [[China]].