Artiopoda - Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Alternative spelling: Bathyuriscus (Kootenia)
Synonym: Notasaphus Gregory 1903
Parent taxon: Dorypyginae according to E. Landing et al. 2008
See also Eddy and McCollum 1998, Jell and Adrain 2002, Palmer 1954, Palmer and Halley 1979, Sepkoski 2002 and Sundberg 1994
Sister taxon: Dorypyge
Subtaxa: Kootenia acicularis Kootenia aculacauda Kootenia anabarensis Kootenia asiatica Kootenia bolis Kootenia boucheri Kootenia crassa Kootenia crassinucha Kootenia dawsoni Kootenia diutina Kootenia exilaxata Kootenia fida Kootenia fiorens Kootenia florens Kootenia fuyangensis Kootenia germana Kootenia gracilens Kootenia gracilis Kootenia granulosa Kootenia henglinheensis Kootenia idahoensis Kootenia incerta Kootenia jialaoensis Kootenia longa Kootenia maladensis Kootenia margoindistincta Kootenia mathewsi Kootenia minima Kootenia moori Kootenia nitida Kootenia quadriceps Kootenia randolphi Kootenia sagena Kootenia sanwanensis Kootenia serrata Kootenia shangwanensis Kootenia shanxiensis Kootenia siberica Kootenia spencei Kootenia styrax Kootenia venusta Kootenia yichunensis Kootenia yui
Type: Bathyuriscus (Kootenia) dawsoni
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Antarctica (2 collections), Argentina (6), Australia (3), Canada (24: Alberta-British Columbia, British Columbia, Northwest Territories), China (35), Greenland (8), Kazakhstan (2), Mexico (2), Mongolia (1), North Korea (1), the Russian Federation (15), South Korea (1), United States (57: Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Nevada and California, Pennsylvania, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Templetonian of United States (1: Nevada)
• Amgan of Kyrgyzstan (1), the Russian Federation (2), United States (1: Alaska)
• Solvan of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Canada (7: Newfoundland and Labrador), Kazakhstan (2), United States (4: Nevada)
Total: 177 collections including 213 occurrences
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