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. 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.

Kootenia

Daderot · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DorypyginaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Dorypygidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 516 Mya to 497 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 486.85 Mya.

Cambrian — about 214 of 214 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 214 occurrences540–538 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences538–536 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences536–534 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences533–531 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences529–527 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences524–522 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences522–520 Mya — about 3 occurrences520–518 Mya — about 4 occurrences518–516 Mya — about 4 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 8 occurrences515–513 Mya — about 14 occurrences513–511 Mya — about 15 occurrences511–509 Mya — about 20 occurrences509–507 Mya — about 33 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 43 occurrences506–504 Mya — about 34 occurrences504–502 Mya — about 8 occurrences502–500 Mya — about 8 occurrences500–498 Mya — about 7 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 5 occurrences497–495 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences495–493 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences493–491 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences491–489 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences516 Mya497 Mya540 Mya486 Mya

214 occurrences of Kootenia on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

214 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

70 formations

Pioche Shale — 37.52°N, 114.79°WPioche Shale — 37.85°N, 114.60°WPioche Shale — 40.00°N, 115.00°WLangston — 42.19°N, 112.25°WLangston — 42.32°N, 111.45°WSekwi — 63.52°N, 128.68°WHenson Gletscher — 80.25°N, 62.50°WHenson Gletscher — 82.29°N, 39.68°WHenson Gletscher — 82.00°N, 42.00°WHenson Gletscher — 82.17°N, 39.67°WBurgess Shale — 51.44°N, 116.47°WBurgess Shale — 51.03°N, 115.83°WBurgess Shale — 51.38°N, 116.43°WKaili — 26.40°N, 107.88°EKaili — 26.73°N, 108.42°EShallow Bay — 49.25°N, 65.57°WFengjia'ao — 32.80°N, 111.45°EFengjia'ao — 32.73°N, 111.17°ESan Isidro — 32.86°S, 69.00°WCarrara — 39.16°N, 119.83°WCarrara — 37.45°N, 115.73°WUsa — 56.00°N, 88.00°EUsa — 54.00°N, 90.75°EShabakty — 43.68°N, 69.68°EMuav Limestone — 35.99°N, 113.82°WMuav Limestone — 36.11°N, 112.11°WMuav Limestone — 36.10°N, 112.21°WLead Bell Shale — 42.00°N, 112.00°WWangjiadian — 33.13°N, 111.47°EWangjiadian — 33.23°N, 110.88°ETrailer — 39.88°N, 113.05°WShady — 36.85°N, 80.91°WShady — 36.85°N, 80.90°WParker Slate — 44.48°N, 73.21°WParker Slate — 44.74°N, 73.16°WStephen — 52.83°N, 119.25°WStephen — 51.40°N, 116.48°WStephen — 51.34°N, 116.37°WHillard Limestone — 64.97°N, 141.18°WHillard Limestone — 65.20°N, 141.43°WShuangyingshan — 41.47°N, 96.57°EShuangyingshan — 41.49°N, 96.72°EKinzers — 40.44°N, 75.12°WKinzers — 40.05°N, 76.36°WKinzers — 39.96°N, 76.73°WTorgashino — 55.97°N, 92.92°EHsuchuang — 34.75°N, 110.62°EHsuchuang — 34.80°N, 111.90°E

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The named rock units Kootenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 46 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kootenia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Kootenia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

724 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 136 sites for Kootenia, 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

75 references

Each of the 214 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. 63 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Kootenia

Credit
Daderot
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Walcott 1899)