Kootenia
Extinct genus of trilobites
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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]
| Kootenia Temporal range: | |
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| Kootenia burgessensis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Corynexochida |
| Family: | †Dorypygidae |
| Genus: | †Kootenia Walcott, 1889 |
| Species | |
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K. dawsoni Walcott, 1889 - Type species. | |
Type species
Bathyuriscus (Kootenia) dawsoni Walcott, 1889.[4] From the Burgess shale (the Stephen formation) of British Columbia.
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.[5]
