Afrops
| Afrops Temporal range: Pragian
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| Artist's reconstruction | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Phacopida |
| Family: | †Phacopidae |
| Genus: | † Alberti, 1983 |
| Species: | †A. larvifer
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| Binomial name | |
| †Afrops larvifer Alberti, 1983[1]
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Afrops larvifer ("Eye of Africa bearing a mask")[1] is a phacopid trilobite which lived in a marine environment during the Pragian stage 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] It is the only species in the genus Afrops.
References
- ^ a b c 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