>>28476834>Using inaccurate fanart based on the sprite to support a Kabutops connection.Kabutops is not and never was Bug type. Its not in their breeding group and learns no Bug moves naturally. Bug/Water -> Rock/Water -> Bug/Steel doesn't make any sense you know it. Genesect doesn't even have ANY Water moves.
Genesect has an insect abdomen, which is nothing like Kabutops' lower torso. Its eyes beneath the lens are also completely different.
If there was a connection, it would have been said from the very beginning like Mewtwo and Mew. An entire movie came and went without Kabutops even being mentioned. A whole new fossil was designed for Genesect's arm.
They probably never put much thought into what Genesect originally looked like anyway. 