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Extinct genus of sponges
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]
References
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Bibcode :
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doi :
10.1016/j.geobios.2007.02.006 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
^ Walcott, C. D. (1920).
"Cambrian geology and paleontology IV:6—Middle Cambrian Spongiae" .
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections . 67 : 261–364.
^ 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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