''Kainops'' is a genus of
trilobite
Trilobites (; meaning "three-lobed entities") are extinction, extinct marine arthropods that form the class (biology), class Trilobita. One of the earliest groups of arthropods to appear in the fossil record, trilobites were among the most succ ...
s from the family
Phacopidae
Phacopidae is a family (biology), family of Phacopida, phacopid trilobites that ranges from the Lower Ordovician to the Upper Devonian, with representatives in all Supercontinents, paleocontinents.
Description
As in all Phacopina, the eyes (if ...
, order
Phacopida
Phacopida ("lens-face") is an order of trilobites that lived from the Late Cambrian to the Late Devonian. It is made up of a morphologically diverse assemblage of taxa in three related suborders.
Characteristics
Phacopida had 8 to 19 thoraci ...
.
It can be distinguished from ''
Paciphacops'' by the greater number of facets to the eye (6–8 per row, compared to 3–4 in ''Paciphacops'').
The form of the furrow between the palpebral area and the palpebral lobe also distinguishes ''Kainops'' from the genera ''Paciphacops'' and ''
Viaphacops''.
Species included in the genus are:
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Kainops chlupaci
''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 (6–8 per row, compared to 3–4 in ''Paciphacops''). The form of the furro ...
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Budil & Kolář, 2004
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Kainops ekphymus''
(Jones ''et al.'', 1986)
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Kainops guttulus''
(Campbell 1967)
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Kainops invius
''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 (6–8 per row, compared to 3–4 in ''Paciphacops''). The form of the furr ...
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(Campbell 1977)
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Kainops microps''
(Chatterton, Johnson and Campbell, 1979)
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Kainops raymondi''
(Delo 1935)
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Kainops veles''
(Chlupac 1972)
References
Phacopidae
Extinct animals of North America
Devonian trilobites
Phacopida genera
Fossil taxa described in 1991
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