Kainops

Kainops is a genus of trilobites from the family Phacopidae, order Phacopida. It can be distinguished from Paciphacops by the greater number of facets to the eye. The form of the furrow between the palpebral area and the palpebral lobe also distinguishes Kainops from the genera Paciphacops and Viaphacops.

Kainops

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhacopidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Phacopidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 38 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 0 of 14 occurrencesDevonian — about 14 of 14 occurrencesDevonian420–419 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 2 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 5 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 3 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420.4 Mya381.6 Mya

14 occurrences of Kainops on record, most of them in the Devonian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

14 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

4 formations

Garra — 32.58°S, 148.95°EHaragan — 34.50°N, 96.50°WBois d'Arc — 34.50°N, 96.50°WVinarice Limestone — 50.00°N, 14.00°E

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The named rock units Kainops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kainops and its relatives

Devonian

Where Kainops and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

244 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Kainops, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

4 references

Each of the 14 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Kainops

Credit
Moussa Direct Ltd.
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPhacopidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ramsköld and Werdelin 1991