Hamptonia
Extinct genus of sponges
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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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| Fossil of Hamptonia chengjiangensis in Yuxi Museum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Demospongiae |
| Order: | †Protomonaxonida |
| Family: | †Hamptoniidae |
| Genus: | †Hamptonia Walcott, 1920 |
| Type species | |
| Hamptonia bowerbanki Walcott, 1920s | |
| Species | |
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