''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.
32 specimens of ''Wapkia'' are known from the Greater
Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.06% of the community.
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Burgess Shale fossils
Protomonaxonida
Burgess Shale sponges
Prehistoric sponge genera
Taxa named by Charles Doolittle Walcott
Fossil taxa described in 1920
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Cambrian genus extinctions