{{Short description|Genus of molluscs}} {{Taxobox | fossil_range = Early-Middle Cambrian<br />~{{Fossil range|516|505}} | image = Marocella.jpg | image_caption = ''Marocella''<br />{{small|source: Evans, 1992}} | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Mollusca | classis = ''incertae sedis'' | binomial = '''''Marocella''''' | binomial_authority = {{small|Geyer 1986}}<ref>{{cite journal |author=Geyer, G. |year=1986 |title=Mittelkambrische Mollusken aus Marokko und Spanien |journal=Senckenbergiana Lethaea |language=German |volume=67 |pages=55–118}}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = * ''M. antiqua'' * ''M. australica'' * ''M. depressa'' * ''M. mira'' * ''M. morenensis'' * ''M. tichkaensis'' | type_species = '''''Marocella mira''''' }}
'''''Marocella''''' is a conical shelly fossil of uncertain affinity (probably a mollusc) known from Cambrian strata of Europe, Morocco, Australia and Antarctica.<ref name="ReferenceB">{{Cite journal | last1 = Evans | first1 = K. R. | title = Marocella: Antarctic Specimens of an Enigmatic Cambrian Animal | jstor = 1305841 | journal = Journal of Paleontology | volume = 66 | issue = 4 | pages = 558–562 | year = 1992 | doi = 10.1017/s0022336000024422| bibcode = 1992JPal...66..558E | s2cid = 132749268 }}</ref>
== Morphology == Limpet-like ''Marocella '' is a low conical shell with concentric ridges that grew to a couple of centimetres in length.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite journal | last1 = Skovsted | first1 = C. B. | last2 = Brock | first2 = G. A. | last3 = Lindström | first3 = A. | last4 = Peel | first4 = J. S. | last5 = Paterson | first5 = J. R. | last6 = Fuller | first6 = M. K. | title = Early Cambrian record of failed durophagy and shell repair in an epibenthic mollusc | journal = Biology Letters | volume = 3 | issue = 3 | pages = 314–317 | year = 2007 | pmid = 17412671 | pmc = 2464687 | doi = 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0006}}</ref>
== Affinity == ''Marocella'' is thought to be a mollusc, although its position within this phylum is undetermined.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> Relationship to the halkieriids has also been considered.<ref name="ReferenceB"/>
== Ecology == Some specimens show evidence of repairing damage caused by predators.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> It probably moved around on the sea floor.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> It was geographically widespread.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
== Distribution == Fossils of ''Marocella'' have been found in:<ref name=FWMarocella>[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=7953 ''Marocella''] at Fossilworks.org</ref> * Shackleton Limestone, Antarctica * Mernmerna Formation and Parara Limestone, Australia * Jbel Wawrmast Formation, Morocco * Sparagmite Formation, Norway * Láncara Formation, Spain
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Category:Cambrian animals Category:Prehistoric mollusc genera Category:Enigmatic protostome taxa Category:Fossils of Antarctica Category:Fossils of Australia Category:Cambrian animals of Africa Category:Fossils of Morocco Category:Cambrian animals of Europe Category:Cambrian Norway Category:Fossils of Norway Category:Fossils of Spain Category:Fossil taxa described in 1986 Category:Cambrian genus extinctions