Bunaia
Appearance
Bunaia Temporal range:
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Clade: | Planaterga (?) |
Genus: | †Bunaia Clarke, 1919 |
Type species | |
†Bunaia woodwardi Clarke, 1919
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Bunaia is a genus of chelicerate, a group of arthropods. Bunaia might be part of the clade Planaterga. The genus contains two species: B. heintzi from the Silurian period in Svalbard, Norway; and B. woodwardi from the Silurian period in the United States.[1][2]
References
- ^ Dunlop, J. A.; Penney, D.; Jekel, D. (2018). "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.