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: Burgess Shale–Lower Ordovician
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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]

References

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  1. ^ Botting, J. P. (2007). "'Cambrian' demosponges in the Ordovician of Morocco: insights into the early evolutionary history of sponges". Geobios. 40 (6): 737–748. Bibcode:2007Geobi..40..737B. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2007.02.006.
  2. ^ Rigby, J. K.; Collins, D. (2004). "Sponges of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and Stephen Formations, British Columbia". ROM contributions in science. 1. ISBN 0-88854-443-X. ISSN 1710-7768.
  3. ^ Qiu-Jun Wang; Jin Peng; Rong-Qin Wen; Guang-Ying Du; Hui Zhang; De-Zhi Wang; Yi-Fan Wang (2019). "Hamptonia jianhensis sp. nov. from the Cambrian (Stage 4) Balang Fauna of Guizhou, China". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 32 (9): 1206–1214. doi:10.1080/08912963.2019.1575374. S2CID 92293899.
  4. ^ Botting, J. P.; Peel, J. S. (2016). "Early Cambrian sponges of the Sirius Passet Biota, North Greenland". Papers in Palaeontology. 2 (4): 463–487. Bibcode:2016PPal....2..463B. doi:10.1002/spp2.1048. S2CID 132191759.
  5. ^ Rigby, J. K.; Church, S. B.; Anderson, N. K. (2010). "Middle Cambrian Sponges from the Drum Mountains and House Range in Western Utah". Journal of Paleontology. 84 (1): 66–78. Bibcode:2010JPal...84...66R. doi:10.1666/08-046.1. JSTOR 20627693. S2CID 130205628.
  6. ^ Van Roy, P.; Orr, P. J.; Botting, J. P.; Muir, L. A.; Vinther, J.; Lefebvre, B.; Hariri, K. E.; Briggs, D. E. G. (2010). "Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type". Nature. 465 (7295): 215–8. Bibcode:2010Natur.465..215V. doi:10.1038/nature09038. PMID 20463737. S2CID 4313285.
  7. ^ Walcott, C. D. (1920). "Cambrian geology and paleontology IV:6—Middle Cambrian Spongiae". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 67: 261–364.
  8. ^ Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS. 21 (5): 451–65. Bibcode:2006Palai..21..451C. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. JSTOR 20173022. S2CID 53646959.
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