Afrops

{{Short description|Genus of trilobites}}

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| fossil_range = Pragian

| image = Afrops larvifer.JPG

| image_caption = Artist's reconstruction

| genus = Afrops

| parent_authority = Alberti, 1983

| species = larvifer

| authority = Alberti, 1983ALBERTI, G. K. B. 1983. Trilobiten des jüngeren Siluriums sowie des Unterund Mittel-Devons IV. Senckenbergiana lethaea, 64

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