Hollardops
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Hollardops mesocristata Houston Museum of Natural Science - DSC01602 | |
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Genus: | Hollardops Morzadec, 1997
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Hollardops is a genus of trilobite in the order Phacopida that lived during the Eifelian of the Middle Devonian.[1] It was described by Le Maître in 1952 under type species Metacanthina mesocristata. The genus underwent reclassification in 1997 under its current name Hollardops. Their fossils are found in present-day Morocco. They share similarities with Greenops of New York and Canada, but are generally larger than most Greenops species.
Description[]
Hollardops have schizochroal eyes and a glabella that is slightly raised on the surface of the cephalon. extend from the cephalon and extend to approximately the 6th thoracic segment.
Hollardops has 11 thoracic segments and also has 5 pairs of spines extending from the segments of the pygidium.
Length ranges from approximately 3 to 9 cm.
References[]
- ^ "Fossilworks: Hollardops". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ Google Maps: Jebel Oufatene
- ^ Google Maps: [Jebel] Issimour
- Acastidae
- Devonian trilobites of Africa
- Phacopida stubs