Afrops

Afrops
Temporal range: Pragian
Artist's reconstruction
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Phacopida
Family: Phacopidae
Subfamily: Phacopidellinae
Genus: Afrops
Species: A. larvifer
Binomial name
Afrops larvifer
Alberti, 1983[1]

Afrops larvifer ("Eye of Africa bearing a mask")[1] is a phacopid trilobite which lived in a marine environment during the Pragian epoch in what is now southwestern Algeria.[1] The holotype and only known specimen is an incomplete cephalon that was described by G. Alberti in 1983.[2]

References

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

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