Bunodidae
Appearance
Bunodidae Temporal range:
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Restoration of Limuloides limuloides | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Clade: | Prosomapoda |
Clade: | Planaterga |
Family: | †Bunodidae Packard, 1886 |
Type species | |
†Bunodes lunula Eichwald, 1854
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Genera | |
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Bunodidae is an extinct family of chelicerates that lived in the Silurian. Bunodidae is classified inside the clade Planaterga, and is composed by two genera, Bunodes (the type genus) and Limuloides.[1][2]
References
- ^ Dunlop, J. A.; Penney, D.; Jekel, D. (2020). "A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives" (PDF). World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. pp. 1–296.
- ^ Lamsdell, James C. (2013). "Revised systematics of Palaeozoic 'horseshoe crabs' and the myth of monophyletic Xiphosura". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 167 (1): 1–27. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00874.x. ISSN 0024-4082.