Bunodidae
Extinct family of chelicerates
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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]
| Bunodidae Temporal range: | |
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| Restoration of Limuloides limuloides and Bunodes lunula | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Clade: | Prosomapoda |
| Clade: | Planaterga |
| Family: | †Bunodidae Packard, 1886 |
| Type species | |
| †Bunodes lunula Eichwald, 1854 | |
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