†Hamptonia elongata Rigby and Collins 2004 (demosponge)
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Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Hamptoniidae
Full reference: J. K. Rigby and D. Collins. 2004. Sponges of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and Stephen Formations, British Columbia. Royal Ontario Museum Contributions in Science 1:1-155
Belongs to Hamptonia according to J. K. Rigby and D. Collins 2004
Sister taxa: Hamptonia bowerbanki, Hamptonia chengjiangensis, Hamptonia christi, Hamptonia parva
Type specimen: Its type locality is North of Fossil Gully Fault, Mount Field, which is in a Delamaran deep-water shale in the Burgess Shale Formation of Canada
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at North of Fossil Gully Fault, Mount Field
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