Hamptonia

Phylum:Porifera

Class:Demospongiae

Order:†Protomonaxonida

Family:†Hamptoniidae

Hamptonia Temporal range: Burgess Shale–Lower Ordovician PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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
Hamptonia bowerbanki Walcott, 1920 Hamptonia christi Botting, 2007[1] Hamptonia elongata Rigby & Collins, 2004[2] Hamptonia jianhensis Wang et al., 2019[3] Hamptonia limatula Botting & Peel, 2016[4] Hamptonia parva Rigby et al., 2010[5]

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]