{{Short description|Genus of phacopid trilobites}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic_taxobox | fossil_range = Eifelian, {{fossil range|Middle Devonian}} | image = Morocops.jpg | image_caption = ''Morocops'' fossil | taxon = Morocops | authority = Basse 2006,<ref name= Basse2006 /> Mckeller & Chatterton 2009<ref name=McKeller2009 /> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = *{{extinct}}''Morocops granulops'' <small>McKellar & Chatterton, 2009</small><ref name=McKeller2009 /> *{{extinct}}''Morocops ovatus'' <small>McKellar & Chatterton, 2009</small><ref name=McKeller2009 /> }}
'''''Morocops''''' is a phacopid trilobite in the family Phacopidae. They were previously<ref name="Schraut2000">{{cite journal |last1=Schraut |first1=Gunnar | date=March 2000 |title=Trilobites from the Lower Devonian of the south-eastern Anti-Atlas System, South Morocco |url= |journal=Senckenbergiana Lethaea | volume=79 |doi=10.1007/bf03043648 }}</ref> considered part of the ''Phacops'' genus, but were later<ref name=Basse2006> {{cite book |last=Basse |first=Martin |date=Dec 2006 | title=Eifel Trilobites vol. 4: Proetida 3, Phacopida 3 | url=https://www.nhbs.com/eifel-trilobiten-band-iv-proetida-3-phacopida-3-eifel-trilobites-volume-4-proetida-3-phacopida-3-book |publisher=Goldschneck Verlag | isbn=9783494014111 }} </ref><ref name= McKeller2009 > {{cite journal |last1=McKeller |first1=Ryan | last2=Chatterton |first2=Brian | date=2009 |title=Early and Middle Devonian Phacopidae (Trilobita) of southern Morocco |journal=Palaeontographica Canadiana | volume=28 |doi=10.7934/P2702 }} </ref> reclassified as their own genus.
Like many trilobites of the family Phacopidae they occur throughout the Middle Devonian strata of southern Morocco, what then would have been part of the northern coast of the super continent of Gondwana.
The genus includes ''Morocops granulops'' and ''Morocops ovatus'', which are primarily distinguished by the structure of their eyes <ref name=McKeller2009 />
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Category:Fossil taxa described in 2006 Category:Phacopida genera Category:Phacopidae Category:Middle Devonian animals Category:Middle Devonian first appearances