Trilobita - Corynexochida - Dorypygidae

Full reference: C. E. Resser. 1939. The Spence Shale and its fauna. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 97(12):1-29

Belongs to Kootenia according to C. E. Resser 1939

Sister taxa: Kootenia bolis, Kootenia boucheri, Kootenia dawsoni, Kootenia fida, Kootenia fuyangensis, Kootenia gracilens, Kootenia gracilis, Kootenia henglinheensis, Kootenia idahoensis, Kootenia jialaoensis, Kootenia longa, Kootenia mathewsi, Kootenia sanwanensis, Kootenia shangwanensis, Kootenia shanxiensis, Kootenia yichunensis, Kootenia yui

Type specimen: USNM 96506

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore