Walliserops

Walliserops
Temporal range: Upper Emsian and Lower Eifelian
Walliserops trifurcatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: †Trilobita
Order: †Phacopida
Family: †Acastidae
Genus: †Walliserops
Type species
Walliserops trifurcatus
Morzadec, 2001
Species
  • W. trifurcatus Morzadec, 2001
  • W. hammii Chatterton et al., 2006
  • W. lindoei Chatterton & Gibb, 2010
  • W. tridens Chatterton et al., 2006
A finely prepared Walliserops trifurcatus trilobite fossil
Walliserops trifurcatus

Walliserops (named after Prof. O. Walliser of the University of Göttingen) is a genus of spinose phacopid trilobite, of the family Acastidae, found in Lower to Middle Devonian age rocks from the Anti-Atlas Mountains of Morocco. All species of Walliserops possess a three-pronged "trident" that protrudes from the glabella. Walliserops is most closely related to the genus Comura.[1][2]

  1. ^ K. Brett & N. Chatterton (2001). Parabolops, a new asteropygine trilobite from southern Morocco with an unusual trident-like anterior cephalic frontal process. 3rd International Conference on Trilobites and their Relatives. University of Oxford.
  2. ^ B. Chatterton; R. Fortey; K. Brett; S. Gibb & R. McKellar (2006). Trilobites from the Lower to Middle Devonian Timrhanrhart Formation, Jbel Gara el Zquilma, southern Morocco. Palaeontographica Canadiana 25. ISBN 1-897095-15-5.