Kootenia Temporal range: | |
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Kootenia burgessensis | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | † Trilobita |
Order: | † Corynexochida |
Family: | † Dorypygidae |
Genus: | † Kootenia Walcott, 1889 |
Species | |
K. dawsoni Walcott, 1889 - Type species. Contents |
Kootenia is a genus of trilobites of the family Dorypygidae. 118 specimens of Kootenia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.22% of the community. [2] Its major characteristics are that of the closely related Olenoides , including medium size, a large glabella, and a medium-sized pygidium, but also a lack of the strong interpleural furrows on the pygidium that Olenoides has. [3]
Bathyuriscus (Kootenia) dawsoni Walcott, 1889. [4] From the Burgess shale (the Stephen formation) of British Columbia.
Kootenia is sometimes believed to be a junior synonym of Olenoides due to the marked similarities, and the fact that the main difference between them seems to be variable. [5]