Order: PHACOPIDA Salter, 1864
Suborder: PHACOPINA Struve, 1959
Superfamily: ACASTOIDEA Reijers, 1972
Family: ACASTIDAE Delo, 1935
Subfamily: ASTEROPYGINAE Delo, 1935
Genus MORZADECOPS Bignon and Crônier, 2014
Diagnosis
by Bignon and Crônier, 2014
Cephalon: Frontal lobe diamond shaped; axial furrows curved between S2 and S3; L3 more elevated than L1 and L2; 8 lenses per dorsoventral file of visual surface; genal spine shorter than glabella, without development of lateral border.
Pygidium: 10 to 11 pygidial axial rings; 5 pleural segments, rounded pleural bands; pleural furrows rather large; 5 pairs of pygidial spines developed from posterior and anterior pleural bands with a similar length, shorter or as long as pleural width (tr.); terminal spine as wide as axial extremity
and as long as other pygidial spines.
Occurence
There are 2 species of Morzadecops, but only M. zguidensis occurs in Morocco. It is found in the lower Emsian. A list of all species can be found below.
Species
Morzadecops matutina Gandl, 1972 (middle Pragian – Spain)
Morzadecops zguidensis Morzadec, 2001 (lower Emsian – Morocco)
Morzadecops zguidensis was previously attributed to the genus Pilletina (Morzadec 2001).
References
Bignon, A., Crônier, C., 2014. The systematics and phylogeny of the Devonian subfamily Asteropyginae (Trilobita: Phacopida). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 12, 637–668.