| 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: | †Afrops Alberti, 1983 |
| Species: | †A. larvifer
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| Binomial name | |
| †Afrops larvifer Alberti, 19831
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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
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.