''Hamptonia'' is an extinct genus of
sea sponge known from the
Middle Cambrian
Middle or The Middle may refer to:
* Centre (geometry), the point equally distant from the outer limits.
Places
* Middle (sheading), a subdivision of the Isle of Man
* Middle Bay (disambiguation)
* Middle Brook (disambiguation)
* Middle Creek (di ...
Burgess Shale and the Lower Ordovician
Fezouata formation
The Fezouata Formation or Fezouata Shale is a geological formation in Morocco which dates to the Early Ordovician. .
It was first described in 1920 by
Charles Doolittle Walcott.
48 specimens of ''Hamptonia'' are known from the Greater
Phyllopod bed, where they comprise < 0.1% of the community.
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Burgess Shale fossils
Protomonaxonida
Burgess Shale sponges
Prehistoric sponge genera
Cambrian genus extinctions
Taxa named by Charles Doolittle Walcott
Fossil taxa described in 1920
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Ordovician genus extinctions