Hamptonia Explained

Hamptonia is an extinct genus of sea sponge known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and the Lower Ordovician Fezouata formation.^[1] It was first described in 1920 by Charles Doolittle Walcott.^[2] 48 specimens of Hamptonia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise < 0.1% of the community.^[3]

External links

• Web site: 2011. Hamptonia bowerbanki. Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. https://web.archive.org/web/20201112025257/http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/en/fossil-gallery/view-species.php?id=61. 2020-11-12. dead. 2017-08-09.

Notes and References

1. 10.1038/nature09038. Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type. 2010. Van Roy . P.. Orr . P. J.. Botting . J. P.. Muir . L. A.. Vinther . J.. Lefebvre . B.. Hariri . K. E.. Briggs . D. E. G.. Nature. 465. 215–8. 20463737. 7295. 2010Natur.465..215V . 4313285.
2. Walcott . C. D. . 1920 . Cambrian geology and paleontology IV:6—Middle Cambrian Spongiae . . 67 . 261–364 .
3. Caron . Jean-Bernard. Jackson . Donald A.. Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale. PALAIOS . 21 . 5 . 451–65. October 2006. 10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. 20173022. 2006Palai..21..451C . 53646959 .