Wapkia
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| Wapkia Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Demospongiae |
| Order: | †Protomonaxonida |
| Family: | †Wapkiidae |
| Genus: | †Wapkia Walcott, 1920 |
| Species | |
Wapkia is an extinct genus of sea sponge with radial sclerites, known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. It was first described in 1920 by Charles Doolittle Walcott.[2] 32 specimens of Wapkia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.06% of the community.[3]
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