{{Short description|Genus of Ordovician arthropod}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Tremadocian}} | image = | display_parents = 3 | genus = Corcorania | parent_authority = Jell, 1980 | species = trispinosa | authority = Jell, 1980 }}
'''''Corcorania''''' is a genus of mollisoniid arthropod<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lerosey-Aubril |first1=Rudy |last2=Kimmig |first2=Julien |last3=Pates |first3=Stephen |last4=Skabelund |first4=Jacob |last5=Weug |first5=Andries |last6=Ortega-Hernández |first6=Javier |title=New exceptionally preserved panarthropods from the Drumian Wheeler Konservat-Lagerstätte of the House Range of Utah |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |date=November 2020 |volume=6 |issue=4 |pages=501–531 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1307|bibcode=2020PPal....6..501L }}</ref> from the early Lancefieldian of Australia. It contains one species, '''''Corcorania trispinosa'''''.<ref name=corcoran>{{cite journal |last1=Jell |first1=Peter A. |title=Two arthropods from the Lancefieldian (La 1) of central Victoria |journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology |date=January 1980 |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=37–46 |doi=10.1080/03115518008558979|bibcode=1980Alch....4...37J }}</ref>
== Description == ''Corcorania'' has a semioval head shield with rounded posterolateral corners and a somewhat truncated appearance from lateral view. Three slightly curved anterior spines extend from the margin of this shield, with the more lateral two being longest. The posterior ventral part of the shield has strong projections, likely for anchoring soft tissue. The trunk consists of seven segments decreasing in size posteriorly. The posterior shield is slightly smaller than the anterior with a subtriangular shape. Appendages are rarely preserved, with only a few known. Possible furcal rami are known from some specimens however these are unclear. A spine protruding from beneath the right side of the first trunk segment is the only evidence of appendages, however several disassociated ones are known. The most common type of appendage is semicircular with three curved spines on its rounded margin, although a spinier and more rectangular type is also known.<ref name=corcoran/>
== Etymology == ''Corcorania'' honours the Corcoran family, who helped the discoverer with finding the fossils. The species name ''trispinosa'' references the three spines on the head shield.<ref name=corcoran/>
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Category:Ordovician arthropods Category:Fossils of Australia Category:Ordovician Australia Category:Monotypic prehistoric chelicerate genera Category:Fossil taxa described in 1980