It can be found in Australia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Iran, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Poland, the Russian Federation (Urals), Spain, and the United Kingdom (England).

[1][2] Acuticryphops is probably ancestral to Trimerocephalus, and mainly differs from its descendants in having an eye lobe with a small number of lenses.

The dorsal facial sutures are not functional, so cranidia and free cheeks (or librigenae) are not found separated.

The part of the margin that is tucked-under (or doublure) and only visible when viewing the cephalon from the belly (or ventral side), is short and flat.

The vincular furrow, a groove that fits the margin of the tailpiece or pygidium when the animal was enrolled, is wide and deep.