Afrops

Afrops
Temporal range: Pragian
Artist's reconstruction
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: †Artiopoda
Class: †Trilobita
Order: †Phacopida
Family: †Phacopidae
Genus: †Afrops
Alberti, 1983
Species:
†A. larvifer
Binomial name
†Afrops larvifer
Alberti, 1983

Afrops larvifer ("Eye of Africa bearing a mask") is a phacopid trilobite which lived in a marine environment during the Pragian stage in what is now southwestern Algeria. The holotype and only known specimen is an incomplete cephalon that was described by G. Alberti in 1983. It is the only species in the genus Afrops.

References

  1. 1 2 3 ALBERTI, G. K. B. 1983. Trilobiten des jüngeren Siluriums sowie des Unterund Mittel-Devons IV. Senckenbergiana lethaea, 64
  2. ↑ Available Generic Names for Trilobites P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.