Kootenia

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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]

Type species

Bathyuriscus (Kootenia) dawsoni Walcott, 1889.[3]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.[4]

References

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  2. Coppold, Murray and Wayne Powell (2006). A Geoscience Guide to the Burgess Shale, p.59. The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation, Field, British Columbia. Template:ISBN.
  3. Walcott C. D. 1889. Description of new genera and species of fossils from the Middle Cambrian. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 11(738):441-446.
  4. Coppold, Murray and Wayne Powell (2006). A Geoscience Guide to the Burgess Shale, p.59. The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation, Field, British Columbia. Template:ISBN.

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