Hamptonia

{{Short description|Extinct genus of sponges}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{Geological range|Burgess Shale|Lower Ordovician}} | image = 玉溪市博物馆-寒武纪早期-云南澄江-澄江汉普顿海绵 Hamptonia chengjiangensis.jpg | image_caption = Fossil of ''Hamptonia chengjiangensis'' in Yuxi Museum | taxon = Hamptonia | authority = Walcott, 1920 | type_species = ''Hamptonia bowerbanki'' | type_species_authority = Walcott, 1920s | subdivision = {{Species list | Hamptonia bowerbanki | Walcott, 1920 | Hamptonia christi | Botting, 2007<ref>{{cite journal|last=Botting|first=J. P.|year=2007|title='Cambrian' demosponges in the Ordovician of Morocco: insights into the early evolutionary history of sponges|journal=Geobios|volume=40|issue=6|pages=737–748|doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2007.02.006|bibcode=2007Geobi..40..737B }}</ref> | Hamptonia elongata | Rigby & Collins, 2004<ref>{{RigbyCollins2004}}</ref> | Hamptonia jianhensis | Wang ''et al.'', 2019<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Qiu-Jun Wang |author2=Jin Peng |author3=Rong-Qin Wen |author4=Guang-Ying Du |author5=Hui Zhang |author6=De-Zhi Wang |author7=Yi-Fan Wang |year=2019 |title=''Hamptonia jianhensis'' sp. nov. from the Cambrian (Stage 4) Balang Fauna of Guizhou, China |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=32 |issue=9 |pages=1206–1214 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2019.1575374 |s2cid=92293899 }}</ref> | Hamptonia limatula | Botting & Peel, 2016<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Botting |first1=J. P. |last2=Peel |first2=J. S. |year=2016 |title=Early Cambrian sponges of the Sirius Passet Biota, North Greenland |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |volume=2 |issue=4 |pages=463–487 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1048 |bibcode=2016PPal....2..463B |s2cid=132191759 }}</ref> | Hamptonia parva | Rigby et al., 2010<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Rigby|first1=J. K.|last2=Church|first2=S. B.|last3=Anderson|first3=N. K.|year=2010|title=Middle Cambrian Sponges from the Drum Mountains and House Range in Western Utah|journal=Journal of Paleontology|volume=84|issue=1|pages=66–78|doi=10.1666/08-046.1|jstor=20627693|bibcode=2010JPal...84...66R |s2cid=130205628}}</ref> }} }}

'''''Hamptonia''''' is an extinct genus of sea sponge known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and the Lower Ordovician Fezouata formation.<ref name=DeRoy2010>{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1038/nature09038| title = Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type| year = 2010| last1 = Van Roy | first1 = P.| last2 = Orr | first2 = P. J.| last3 = Botting | first3 = J. P.| last4 = Muir | first4 = L. A.| last5 = Vinther | first5 = J.| last6 = Lefebvre | first6 = B.| last7 = Hariri | first7 = K. E.| last8 = Briggs | first8 = D. E. G.| journal = Nature| volume = 465| pages = 215–8| pmid = 20463737| issue = 7295|bibcode = 2010Natur.465..215V | s2cid = 4313285}}</ref> It was first described in 1920 by Charles Doolittle Walcott.<ref name="Walcott1920MiddleCambrianSpongiae">{{cite journal | last1 = Walcott | first1 = C. D. | year = 1920 | title = Cambrian geology and paleontology IV:6—Middle Cambrian Spongiae | url = https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29838882 | journal = Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections | volume = 67 | pages = 261–364 }}</ref> 48 specimens of ''Hamptonia'' are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise < 0.1% of the community.<ref name=Caron2006>{{cite journal|last1=Caron |first1=Jean-Bernard|last2=Jackson |first2=Donald A.|title=Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale|journal=PALAIOS |volume=21 |issue=5 |pages=451–65|date=October 2006|doi=10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R|jstor=20173022|bibcode=2006Palai..21..451C |s2cid=53646959 }}</ref>

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== External links == * {{Cite web|date=2011|title=''Hamptonia bowerbanki''|work=Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery|publisher=Virtual Museum of Canada|url=http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/en/fossil-gallery/view-species.php?id=61|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112025257/http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/en/fossil-gallery/view-species.php?id=61|archive-date=2020-11-12|url-status=dead|access-date=2017-08-09}}

Category:Protomonaxonida Category:Burgess Shale sponges Category:Prehistoric sponge genera Category:Cambrian genus extinctions Category:Taxa named by Charles Doolittle Walcott Category:Fossil taxa described in 1920 Category:Ordovician genus extinctions Category:Paleozoic sponges