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Hamptonia

Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Hamptoniidae

Taxonomy
Hamptonia was named by Walcott (1920) [Sepkoski's age data: Cm mMid-u Cm uMid-m Sepkoski's reference number: 766]. Its type is Hamptonia bowerbanki. It is the type genus of Hamptoniidae.

It was assigned to Poecilosclerida by Sepkoski (2002); to Hamptoniidae by Finks et al. (2004); and to Demospongia by Bambach et al. (2007).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1920Hamptonia Walcott
2002Hamptonia Sepkoski
2004Hamptonia Finks et al. p. 13
2007Hamptonia Bambach et al. p. S80

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumPoriferaGrant 1836
classDemospongiae(Sollas 1875)
subclassClavaxinellidaLevi 1956
RankNameAuthor
orderProtomonaxonida
familyHamptoniidaeLaubenfels 1955
genusHamptoniaWalcott 1920

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Hamptonia Walcott 1920
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Hamptonia bowerbanki Walcott 1920
Hamptonia chengjiangensis Wu et al. 2014
Hamptonia christi Botting 2007
Hamptonia elongata Rigby and Collins 2004
Hamptonia parva Rigby et al. 2010
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available