Kootenia

Kootenia
Kootenia burgessensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Corynexochida
Suborder: Corynexochina
Family: Dorypygidae
Genus: Kootenia
Species

K. aculacauda
K. brevispina Resser, 1939
K. burgessensis Whittington, 1975
K. convoluta Resser, 1939
K. crassa
K. crassinucha
K. dawsoni Walcott, 1889
K. diutina Fritz, 1972
K. fergusoni Gregory, 1903
K. germona
K. marcoui
K. mckeei
K. modica Whitehouse, 1939
K. spencei Resser, 1939
K. styrax Palmer & Gatehouse

Kootenia assemblage at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen

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.[1] 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.[2]

Synonyms

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.[3]

References

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  1. ↑ 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. JSTOR 20173022.
  2. ↑ Coppold, Murray and Wayne Powell (2006). A Geoscience Guide to the Burgess Shale, p.59. The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation, Field, British Columbia. ISBN 0-9780132-0-4.
  3. ↑ Coppold, Murray and Wayne Powell (2006). A Geoscience Guide to the Burgess Shale, p.59. The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation, Field, British Columbia. ISBN 0-9780132-0-4.


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