Molaria
Sign in to saveMolaria 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.
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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.
== Etymology == The genus name derives from “Molar”, the name of a mountain peak east of the Valley of the Ten Peaks in Alberta, Canada, which in turn was so named by James Hector in 1859 because the shape of the mountain resembles a molar tooth. The specific name of the type species, spinifera, comes from Latin spinifer “spine-bearing.”