Biology:Wapkia
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Short description: Extinct genus of sponges
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Demospongiae |
| Order: | †Protomonaxonida |
| Family: | †Wapkiidae |
| Genus: | †Wapkia Walcott, 1920 |
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Wapkia is an extinct genus of sea sponge with radial sclerites, known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. It was first described in 1920 by Charles Doolittle Walcott.[2] 32 specimens of Wapkia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.06% of the community.[3]
References
- ↑ Rigby, J. K.; Collins, D. (2004). "Sponges of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and Stephen Formations, British Columbia". ROM contributions in science 1. ISBN 0-88854-443-X. ISSN 1710-7768.
- ↑ Walcott, C. D. (1920). "Cambrian geology and paleontology IV:6—Middle Cambrian Spongiae". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 67: 261–364. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29838882.
- ↑ 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. Bibcode: 2006Palai..21..451C.
External links
- "Wapkia grandis". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011. http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/en/fossil-gallery/view-species.php?id=129.
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Wikidata ☰ Q7968261 entry
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