Morocconites

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.

The most conspicuous feature is the very long upcurved frontal medial spine, a bit like an avocet bill.

The general outline of Morocconites is a bar about twice as long as wide, with approximately parallel sides and rounded front and back ends.

The horizontal outline of the cephalon (or head) is pentangular, with a long, upcurved, frontal medial spine.

The pleural (or side) lobes do not end in spines, but are gently rounded, and the margin of the pygidium (or tail) is entire, two features it shares with both Acastinae and Phacopidae.