''Kainops'' is a genus of
trilobite
Trilobites (; meaning "three lobes") are extinct marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita. Trilobites form one of the earliest-known groups of arthropods. The first appearance of trilobites in the fossil record defines the base of the ...
s from the family
Phacopidae
Phacopidae is a family of phacopid trilobites that ranges from the Lower Ordovician to the Upper Devonian, with representatives in all paleocontinents.
Description
As in all Phacopina, the eyes (if present) consist of very large (0.5 mm in ...
, 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 thorac ...
.
It can be distinguished from ''
Paciphacops
''Paciphacops'' is a genus of trilobites from the order Phacopida, suborder Phacopina. This genus is easily mistaken for the more common and popular genus ''Phacops'' and ''Kainops''. It takes a careful eye to spot the difference. One major diff ...
'' 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:
*''
Kainops chlupaci''
Budil & Kolář, 2004
*''
Kainops ekphymus''
(Jones ''et al.'', 1986)
*''
Kainops guttulus''
(Campbell 1967)
*''
Kainops invius''
(Campbell 1977)
*''
Kainops microps''
(Chatterton, Johnson and Campbell, 1979)
*''
Kainops raymondi''
(Delo 1935)
*''
Kainops veles''
(Chlupac 1972)
References
Phacopidae
Extinct animals of North America
Devonian trilobites
Phacopida genera
Fossil taxa described in 1991
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