Morocops

{{Short description|Genus of phacopid trilobites}}

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{{Taxobox

| fossil_range = Eifelian, {{fossil range|Middle Devonian}}

| image = Morocops.jpg

| image_caption = Morocops fossil

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = †Trilobita

| ordo = {{extinct}}Phacopida

| familia = {{extinct}}Phacopidae

| genus = {{extinct}}Morocops

| genus_authority = Basse 2006, Mckeller & Chatterton 2009

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• {{extinct}}Morocops granulops McKellar & Chatterton, 2009
• {{extinct}}Morocops ovatus McKellar & Chatterton, 2009

}}

Morocops is a phacopid trilobite in the family Phacopidae. They were previously{{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 }} considered part of the Phacops genus, but were later

{{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 }}

{{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 }}

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