Afrops

{{Short description|Genus of trilobites}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = Pragian | image = Afrops larvifer.JPG | image_caption = Artist's reconstruction | genus = Afrops | parent_authority = Alberti, 1983 | species = larvifer | authority = Alberti, 1983<ref name=alberti>ALBERTI, G. K. B. 1983. Trilobiten des jüngeren Siluriums sowie des Unterund Mittel-Devons IV. Senckenbergiana lethaea, 64</ref> }}

'''''Afrops larvifer''''' ("Eye of Africa bearing a mask")<ref name=alberti /> is a phacopid trilobite which lived in a marine environment during the Pragian stage in what is now southwestern Algeria.<ref name=alberti /> The holotype and only known specimen is an incomplete cephalon that was described by G. Alberti in 1983.<ref name=generic>[http://www.trilobites.info/generic_names_Jell%26Adrain2003.pdf Available Generic Names for Trilobites] P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.</ref> It is the only species in the genus '''''Afrops'''''.

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==External links== * [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=21434 ''Afrops''] at the Paleobiology Database

Category:Fossils of Algeria Category:Phacopidae Category:Devonian trilobites of Africa Category:Monotypic trilobite genera Category:Phacopida genera