Yuknessia
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Yuknessia is a very putative green alga known from three Burgess shale
specimens, and some from the Chengjiang and Wheeler shale
. Long, unbranched fronds emerge from a central holdfast-like body covered in small conical plates.
Burgess Shale
The Burgess Shale Formation, located in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, is one of the world's most celebrated fossil fields, and the best of its kind. It is famous for the exceptional preservation of the soft parts of its fossils...
specimens, and some from the Chengjiang and Wheeler shale
Wheeler Shale
The Wheeler Shale is a Cambrian fossil locality world famousfor prolific agnostid and Elrathia kingii trilobite remains...
. Long, unbranched fronds emerge from a central holdfast-like body covered in small conical plates.