Molaria

Name: Molaria.
Phonetic: Mo-lah-ree-ah.
Named By: Walcott‭ ‬-‭ ‬1912.
Classification: Animalia,‭ ‬Arthropoda,‭ ‬Artiopoda.
Species: M.‭ ‬spinifera‭ (‬type‭)‬,‭ ‬M.‭ ‬steini.
Diet: ‭ ‬Detritivore‭?
Size: Individuals between‭ ‬8‭ ‬and‭ ‬26‭ ‬millimetres long.
Known locations: Canada‭ ‬-‭ ‬Burgess shale.‭ ‬Greenland.
Time period: Cambrian.
Fossil representation: Numerous individuals.

       Molaria is a genus of arthropod that lived around North America during the Cambrian.

Further reading
-‭ ‬Middle Cambrian Branchiopoda,‭ ‬Malacostraca,‭ ‬Trilobita and Merostomata.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.‭ ‬57:‭ ‬145‭–‬228.‭ ‬-‭ ‬C.‭ ‬D.‭ ‬Walcott‭ ‬-‭ ‬1912.
-‭ ‬Rare Arthropods from the Burgess Shale,‭ ‬Middle Cambrian,‭ ‬British Columbia.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B:‭ ‬Biological Sciences.‭ ‬292‭ (‬1060‭)‬:‭ ‬329‭–‬357‭ ‬-‭ ‬H.‭ ‬B.‭ ‬Whittingdon‭ ‬-‭ ‬1981.
-‭ ‬Molaria‭ (‬Euarthropoda‭) ‬from the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte‭ (‬Cambrian Series‭ ‬2,‭ ‬Stage‭ ‬3‭) ‬of North Greenland. -‭ ‬Bulletin of Geosciences:‭ ‬133‭–‬142.‭ ‬-‭ ‬J.‭ ‬S.‭ ‬Peel.‭ ‬-‭ ‬2017.

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