Morocconites
| Morocconites | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Phacopida |
| Family: | †Acastidae |
| Genus: | †Morocconites Boucot, McClure, Alvarez, Ross, Taylor, Struve, Savage & Turner, 1989 |
| Species: | †M. malladoides
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| Binomial name | |
| †Morocconites malladoides Boucot, McClure, Alvarez, Ross, Taylor, Struve, Savage & Turner, 1989
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Morocconites malladoides is an average size (about 5 centimetres or 2.0 inches) trilobite, which lived during the Devonian period, in what is now southern Morocco. This species is assumed to be a close relative of Acastoides. The most conspicuous feature is the very long upcurved frontal medial spine, a bit like an avocet bill. It is the only known species in this genus (i.e. the genus is monotypic).