Kootenia

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: Middle Cambrian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Kootenia burgessensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	†Artiopoda
Class:	†Trilobita
Order:	†Corynexochida
Family:	†Dorypygidae
Genus:	†Kootenia Walcott, 1889
Species
K. dawsoni Walcott, 1889 - Type species. K. aculacauda Fritz, 1968 ' K. brevispina Resser, 1939 K. burgessensis Whittington, 1975 K. convoluta Resser, 1939 K. crassa Fritz, 1968 K. crassinucha Fritz, 1968 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, 1972,[1] K. westergårdi  Thorslund, 1949

Kootenia assemblage at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen

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]