Name: Believe It 21551 - Top Huge Spiny 4.62 Inch Drotops Armatus Middle Devonian Trilobite Limited Time 90% Off [oqbVpZYD]
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Precious specimen of this enormous species of spiny triolobite. This trilobite has been prepared carefully, during many hours of work. It has several restored fractures. The eyes facets are quite well preserved. Most of the spines have been restored.

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)

Drotops sp: Fossilworks (Paleobiology Database)