07148 - Top Huge 4.72 Inch Drotops megalomanicus Middle Devonian Trilobite
07148 - Top Huge 4.72 Inch Drotops megalomanicus Middle Devonian Trilobite 07148 - Top Huge 4.72 Inch Drotops megalomanicus Middle Devonian Trilobite 07148 - Top Huge 4.72 Inch Drotops megalomanicus Middle Devonian Trilobite 07148 - Top Huge 4.72 Inch Drotops megalomanicus Middle Devonian Trilobite 07148 - Top Huge 4.72 Inch Drotops megalomanicus Middle Devonian Trilobite 07148 - Top Huge 4.72 Inch Drotops megalomanicus Middle Devonian Trilobite 07148 - Top Huge 4.72 Inch Drotops megalomanicus Middle Devonian Trilobite 07148 - Top Huge 4.72 Inch Drotops megalomanicus Middle Devonian Trilobite 07148 - Top Huge 4.72 Inch Drotops megalomanicus Middle Devonian Trilobite 07148 - Top Huge 4.72 Inch Drotops megalomanicus Middle Devonian Trilobite 07148 - Top Huge 4.72 Inch Drotops megalomanicus Middle Devonian Trilobite

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07148 - Top Huge 4.72 Inch Drotops megalomanicus Middle Devonian Trilobite

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Species
Drotops megalomanicus, Struve (1990) - Trilobite
Age
Middle Devonian (~385 Million Years)
Location
Jbel Issoumour, South Morocco
Formation
Issoumour Middle Devonian Outcrops
Size
120 mm   •    in
Weight
762 g   •    oz
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Description

Extremely huge specimen, well prepared. Its size is enormous. It has tiny restorations made on its shell during its meticulous and long preparation. Nice eyes facets.

Drotops is a genus of trilobites from the order Phacopida, family Phacopidae that lived during the Eifelian of the Middle Devonian. It was described by Struve in 1990 under type species Drotops megalomanicus. Their fossils are found in present day Morocco, specifically the Maïder Region located South West of Erfoud.

Drotops, Struve 1990 (trilobite)
Trilobita - Phacopida

Parent taxon: Phacopidae according to P. A. Jell and J. M. Adrain 2002

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Acernaspis, Acuticryphops, Adastocephalum, Afrops, Altaesajania, Ananaspis, Babinops, Boeckops, Burtonops, Chotecops, Cordapeltis, Cryphops, Denckmannites, Dianops, Dienstina, Ductina, Echinophacops, Eldredgeops, Eocryphops, Eophacops, Geesops, Kainops, Lochkovella, Nephranops, Nyterops, Omegops, Paciphacops, Pedinopariops, Phacopidella, Phacopinae, Phacops, Plagiolaria, Reedops, Sambremeusaspis, Signatops, Struveaspis, Trimerocephalus, Zaplaops

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Age range: 388.1 to 383.7 Ma

Distribution: found only at Carbonate mud mound - Aferdou el Mrakib (Devonian of Morocco)
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