| Afrops Temporal range: Pragian | |
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| Artist's reconstruction | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | † Trilobita |
| Order: | † Phacopida |
| Family: | † Phacopidae |
| Genus: | † Afrops Alberti, 1983 |
| 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] It is the only species in the genus Afrops.
