Molaria
| Molaria Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
| M. spinifera lectotype | |
| Life restoration of M. spinifera | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Genus: | †Molaria Walcott, 1912 |
| Type species | |
| Molaria spinifera Walcott, 1912 | |
| Other species | |
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Molaria steini Peel, 2017 | |
Molaria is a genus of Cambrian arthropod, the type species M. spinifera is known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. 144 specimens of Molaria are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.27% of the community. A second species M. steini was described from the Sirius Passet in Greenland in 2017.