Walcottophycus

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Walcottophycus
Temporal range: Burgess Shale
File:Walcottophycus gyges as Bosworthia gyges Walcott 1919.jpg
W. gyges
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Chlorophyta (?)
Genus: Walcottophycus
Species:
W. gyges
Binomial name
Walcottophycus gyges
Wu et al 2016 (Walcott 1919)[1]

Walcottophycus is a probable green algae with a wefty construction, known from the mid-Cambrian Burgess Shale and Kaili Formations.[1] Its single species, W. gyges, was originally assigned to the similar algal genus Bosworthia.[1]

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