Bunodidae Temporal range:
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Restoration of Limuloides limuloides and Bunodes lunula | |
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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Bunodidae is an extinct family of synziphosurine chelicerates that lived in the Silurian. Bunodidae is classified inside the clade Planaterga alongside Pseudoniscidae and Dekatriata (chasmataspidids, eurypterids and arachnids).[1][2][3] Bunodidae is composed by two genera, Bunodes (the type genus) and Limuloides.[1][3][2]