Molaria

Mo-lah-ree-ah.

By John Stewart

Published on October 23, 2013

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Name

Molaria.

Phonetic

Mo-lah-ree-ah.

Named By

Walcott‭ ‬-‭ ‬1912.

Classification

Animalia,‭ ‬Arthropoda,‭ ‬Artiopoda.

Diet

‭ ‬Detritivore‭?

Species

M.‭ ‬spinifera‭

Size

Individuals between‭ ‬8‭ ‬and‭ ‬26‭ ‬millimetres long.

Known locations

Canada‭ ‬-‭ ‬Burgess shale.‭ ‬Greenland.

Time Period

Cambrian.

Fossil representation

Numerous individuals.

In Depth

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

-‭ ‬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 Lagerst�tte‭ (‬Cambrian Series‭ ‬2,‭ ‬Stage‭ ‬3‭) ‬of North Greenland. -‭ ‬Bulletin of Geosciences:‭ ‬133‭–‬142.‭ ‬-‭ ‬J.‭ ‬S.‭ ‬Peel.‭ ‬-‭ ‬2017.

Molaria

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