Afrops (original) (raw)
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Genus of trilobites
| _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[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]
- ^ 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.
- Afrops at the Paleobiology Database