Hamptonia Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Porifera |
Class: | Demospongiae |
Order: | † Protomonaxonida |
Family: | † Hamptoniidae |
Genus: | †
Hamptonia Walcott, 1920 |
Type species | |
Hamptonia bowerbanki
Walcott, 1920s
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Species | |
Hamptonia is an extinct genus of sea sponge known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and the Lower Ordovician Fezouata formation. [6] It was first described in 1920 by Charles Doolittle Walcott. [7] 48 specimens of Hamptonia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise < 0.1% of the community. [8]
Hamptonia Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Porifera |
Class: | Demospongiae |
Order: | † Protomonaxonida |
Family: | † Hamptoniidae |
Genus: | †
Hamptonia Walcott, 1920 |
Type species | |
Hamptonia bowerbanki
Walcott, 1920s
| |
Species | |
Hamptonia is an extinct genus of sea sponge known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and the Lower Ordovician Fezouata formation. [6] It was first described in 1920 by Charles Doolittle Walcott. [7] 48 specimens of Hamptonia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise < 0.1% of the community. [8]