Walcottophycus
| Walcottophycus Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
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| W. gyges | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Supergroup: | Archaeplastida |
| Clade: | Viridiplantae |
| Division: | Chlorophyta (?) |
| Genus: | †Walcottophycus |
| Species: | †W. gyges |
| Binomial name | |
| †Walcottophycus gyges Wu et al 2016 (Walcott 1919) | |
Walcottophycus is a probable green algae with a wefty construction, known from the mid-Cambrian Burgess Shale and Kaili Formations. Its single species, W. gyges, was originally assigned to the similar algal genus Bosworthia.