Kainops Explained

Kainops is a genus of trilobites from the family Phacopidae, order Phacopida.^[1] 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).^[2] The form of the furrow between the palpebral area and the palpebral lobe also distinguishes Kainops from the genera Paciphacops and Viaphacops.^[2]

Species included in the genus are:^{[3] [4]}

• 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)

Notes and References

1. Ryan Christopher McKellar . 2006 . Select Lower and Middle Devonian Phacopidae (Trilobita) of southern Morocco . . 978-0-494-22319-2 . . Introduction . 1–22 .
2. Book: George P. Hansen . 2009 . Trilobites of Black Cat Mountain . Trilobites . 154–287 . https://books.google.com/books?id=t2VIJ2keJ-0C&pg=PA176 . . 978-0-595-52407-5.
3. Malte Christian Ebach. 2002. Lower Devonian trilobites from Cobar, New South Wales. Records of the Western Australian Museum. 20. 353 - 378.
4. Petr Budil & Petr Kolář. 2004. Kainops chlupaci sp. n. from the Lower Devonian (Zlíchovian Stage) of the Prague Basin. Journal of the Czech Geological Society. 49. 3 - 4.