Walcottophycus Temporal range:
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W. gyges | |
Scientific classification
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(unranked): | Viridiplantae |
Division: | Chlorophyta (?) |
Genus: | † Walcottophycus |
Species: | †W. gyges
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Binomial name | |
†Walcottophycus gyges Wu et al 2016 (Walcott 1919)
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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]