Hamptonia parva Rigby et al. 2010 (demosponge)

Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Hamptoniidae

Full reference: J. K. Rigby, S. B. Church, and N. K. Anderson. 2010. Middle Cambrian sponges from the Drum Mountains and House Range in western Utah. Journal of Paleontology 84(1):66-78

Belongs to Hamptonia according to J. K. Rigby et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Hamptonia bowerbanki, Hamptonia chengjiangensis, Hamptonia christi, Hamptonia elongata

Type specimen: Its type locality is Drum Mountains, which is in a Cambrian paralic shale in the Wheeler Formation of Utah

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Drum Mountains

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