Bunaia

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]

Bunaia
Temporal range: Silurian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Clade: Planaterga (?)
Genus: †Bunaia
Clarke, 1919
Type species
†Bunaia woodwardi
Clarke, 1919
Species
  • †B. heintzi Størmer, 1934
  • †B. woodwardi Clarke, 1919

References
  1. 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.
  2. 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.


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