Thylacocercus
| Thylacocercus Temporal range: Early Cambrian | |
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| Artistic reconstruction of a group of Thylacocercus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Superphylum: | Deuterostomia |
| Clade: | †Vetulocystida |
| Family: | †Vetulocystidae |
| Genus: | †Thylacocercus Halgedahl, Jarrard and Conway Morris in Conway Morris et al., 2015 |
| Type species | |
| †Thylacocercus ignota Halgedahl, Jarrard and Conway Morris in Conway Morris et al., 2015 | |
Thylacocercus is a genus of vetulocystid from the Wheeler Shale of Utah that is tentatively placed withini the family Vetulocystidae. Its discovery extended the temporal range of vetulocystids from the Lower Cambrian Stage 3 to the Middle Cambrian Stage 5 (Drumian), and the geographic range from South China to Laurentia.