Biology:Bunaia

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Short description: Extinct genus of chelicerate

Bunaia
Temporal range: Silurian
Scientific classification e
Missing taxonomy template (fix): Planaterga/?
Genus: Bunaia
Clarke, 1919
Type species
Bunaia woodwardi
Clarke, 1919
Species
  • "B". heintzi Størmer, 1934
  • B. woodwardi Clarke, 1919

Bunaia is a genus of synziphosurine, a paraphyletic group of fossil chelicerate arthropods.[1][2] Bunaia was tentatively placed as part of the clade Planaterga.[1][3][2] The genus contains at least one species: Bunaia woodwardi from the Silurian period in Svalbard, Norway .[4][3] Only a few morphological information of B. woodwardi had been confirmed, as the species known only from poorly preserved specimens compose of semicircular carapace, fragments of opisthosoma and disarticulated telson.[4][5] The placement of "Bunaia" heintzi (known only by a single carapace from the Silurian period in the United States ) within this genus had been questioned and required further investigation.[5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 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. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Bicknell, Russell D. C.; Pates, Stephen (2020). "Pictorial Atlas of Fossil and Extant Horseshoe Crabs, With Focus on Xiphosurida" (in en). Frontiers in Earth Science 8: 98. doi:10.3389/feart.2020.00098. ISSN 2296-6463. Bibcode2020FrEaS...8...98B. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Dunlop, J. A.; Penney, D.; Jekel, D. (2020). "A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. pp. 1–296. https://wsc.nmbe.ch/resources/fossils/Fossils20.5.pdf. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Clarke, John M. (1919-12-01). "I.— Bunaia Woodwardi, a New Merostome from the Silurian Waterlimes of New York". Geological Magazine 6 (12): 531–533. doi:10.1017/s0016756800202100. Bibcode1919GeoM....6..531C. https://zenodo.org/record/2262345. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Eldredge, Niles; Smith, LeGrande (1974) (in en-US). Revision of the suborder Synziphosurina (Chelicerata, Merostomata) : with remarks on merostome phylogeny. American Museum novitates ; no. 2543. http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/2745. 

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