Wapkia

Wapkia
Temporal range: Middle Cambrian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Haplosclerida
Family: Wapkiidae
Genus: Wapkia

Wapkia is a genus of sponge with radial sclerites, known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. 32 specimens of Wapkia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.06% of the community.[1]

References

  1. Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS. 21 (5): 451–65. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. JSTOR 20173022.
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