| Molaria Temporal range:
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| M. spinifera lectotype | |
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| Life restoration of M. spinifera | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| (unranked): | †Artiopoda |
| Genus: | †Molaria Walcott, 1912 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Molaria spinifera Walcott, 1912
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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.[2] A second species M. steini was described from the Sirius Passet in Greenland in 2017.[3]
- ^ Walcott, C. D. (1912). "Middle Cambrian Branchiopoda, Malacostraca, Trilobita and Merostomata". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 57: 145–228.
- ^ Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS. 21 (5): 451–65. Bibcode:2006Palai..21..451C. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. JSTOR 20173022. S2CID 53646959.
- ^ Peel, J.S. (2017-06-30). "Molaria (Euarthropoda) from the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 3) of North Greenland". Bulletin of Geosciences: 133–142. doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.1658. ISSN 1802-8225.