| Afrops Temporal range: Pragian | |
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| 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 | |
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.
References
- ^ ALBERTI, G. K. B. 1983. Trilobiten des jüngeren Siluriums sowie des Unterund Mittel-Devons IV. Senckenbergiana lethaea, 64
- Available Generic Names for Trilobites P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.
External links
- Afrops at the Paleobiology Database
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