Wapkia Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Porifera |
Class: | Demospongiae |
Order: | † Protomonaxonida |
Family: | † Wapkiidae |
Genus: | †
Wapkia Walcott, 1920 |
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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]