Bunaia

Bunaia
Temporal range:
Fossil of Bunaia woodwardi
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Family: Offacolidae
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. Bunaia was tentatively placed as part of the clade Planaterga, however a 2024 study found it to be within Offacolidae instead. The genus contains at least one species: Bunaia woodwardi from the Silurian period in Svalbard, Norway and the Bertie Group of Ontario