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 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]

References

  1. ^ a b c 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.


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