Natura - nature
Status: extant
actualia - actual entities
Status: extant
Mundus Plinius - physical world
Status: extant
naturalia - natural bodies
Status: extant
Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater, terrestrial & aerial); Period: Archean - Present (3770 - 0 Mya); Status: extant
Clade neomura Cavalier-Smith, 1987
Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Period: Archean - Present (3420 - 0 Mya); Status: extant
Domain Eukaryota Chatton, 1925 - eukaryotes
Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Period: Proterozoic - Present (1650 - 0 Mya); Status: extant
Clade discaria Cavalier-Smith, 2021
Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Period: Proterozoic - Present [2500 Mya - present]; Status: extant
Clade dorsates Cavalier-Smith, 2021
Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Period: Proterozoic - Present [2500 Mya - present]; Status: extant
Clade podiates Cavalier-Smith, 2012
Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Period: Proterozoic - Present [2500 Mya - present]; Status: extant
Clade Amorphea Adl et al. 2012 [Simpson, Medina & Adl 2020]
Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Period: Proterozoic - Present (1400 - 0 Mya); Status: extant
Clade Obazoa Brown, Sharpe, Silberman, Heiss, Lang, Simpson & Roger 2013
Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Period: Proterozoic - Present (1010 - 0 Mya); Status: extant
Clade Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith 1987 [Simpson & Medina 2020] - animal-fungal clade
Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Period: Proterozoic - Present (1010 - 0 Mya); Status: extant
Superkingdom Holozoa Lang, O'Kelly, Nerad, Gray & Burger, 2002
Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Period: Proterozoic - Present [2500 Mya - present]; Status: extant
Clade filozoa Shalchian-Tabrizi, Minge, Espelund, Orr, Ruden, Jakobsen & Cavalier-Smith, 2008
Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Period: Proterozoic - Present (760 - 0 Mya); Status: extant
Kingdom Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Period: Proterozoic - Present (760 - 0 Mya); Status: extant
Clade Planulozoa Wallberg, Thollesson, Farris & Jondelius 2004
Status: extant
Subkingdom Bilateria Hatschek, 1888 - bilaterians
Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Period: Ediacaran - Present (567 - 0 Mya); Status: extant
Clade Nephrozoa Jondelius, Ruiz-Trillo, Baguñà & Riutort 2002
Period: Ediacaran - Present (558 - 0 Mya); Status: extant
Infrakingdom Deuterostomia Grobben, 1908
Period: Ediacaran - Present (555 - 0 Mya); Status: extant
Phylum Chordata Bateson, 1885 - chordates
Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Period: Ediacaran - Present (555 - 0 Mya); Status: extant
Subphylum Craniata auct.
Status: extant
Infraphylum Vertebrata Lamarck, 1801 - vertebrates
Period: Early Cambrian - Present (518 - 0 Mya); Status: extant
Clade Pan-Gnathostomata Downs 2020
Status: extant
Superclass Gnathostomataᵀ Gegenbaur, 1874 - jawed vertebrates
Status: extant
[crown] Clade Eugnathostomata
Status: extant
Clade Pan-Osteichthyes Rowe 2004 [Moore & Near 2020]
Status: extant
Clade Osteichthyes Huxley 1880 [Moore & Near 2020]
Status: extant
Clade Pan-Sarcopterygii
Status: extant
Clade Sarcopterygii Romer, 1955
Status: extant
Clade Dipnotetrapodomorpha Nelson, 2006
Status: extant
Clade Rhipidistia Cope, 1887
Status: extant
Clade Tetrapodomorpha Ahlberg, 1991
Status: extant
Clade Osteolepidida Boulenger 1901 [Cloutier & Ahlberg 1996]
Status: extant
Clade Eotetrapodiformes Coates & Friedman, 2010
Status: extant
[crown] Clade Elpistostegalia Camp & Allison, 1961
Status: extant
Clade Stegocephali Cope 1868 [Laurin 2020]
Status: extant
Clade Labyrinthodontia Owen 1859 [Laurin 2020]
Status: extant
Clade Tetrapoda Hatschek & Cori 1896 [Laurin 2020]
Status: extant
Clade Pan-Amniota Rowe 2004 [Laurin & Smithson 2020]
Status: extant
Clade Batrachosauria
Status: extant
Clade Amniota Haeckel 1866 [Laurin & Reisz 2020]
Status: extant
Class Reptilia Linnaeus, 1758 - reptiles
Status: extant
Clade Eureptilia Olson, 1947
Status: extant
Clade Romeriida Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe, 1988
Status: extant
Clade Diapsida Osborn 1903 [Gauthier & de Queiroz 2020]
Status: extant
Clade Neodiapsida Benton 1985
Status: extant
Clade Pan-Lepidosauria Gauthier & de Queiroz 2020, sedis mutabilis
Status: extant
[crown] Subclass Lepidosauria Duméril & Bibron, 1839
Status: extant
Order Rhynchocephalia Günther, 1867 - tuataras
Status: extant
Clade Sphenodontia Williston 1925 [Evans 2003]
Status: extant
Clade Acrosphenodontia Chambi-Trowell, Martinelli, Whiteside, Romo de Vivar, Soares, Schultz, Gill, Benton & Rayfield 2021
Status: extant
Clade Eusphenodontia Herrera-Flores, Stubbs, Elsler & Benton 2018
Status: extant
Clade Neosphenodontia Herrera-Flores, Stubbs, Elsler & Benton 2018
Status: extant
Family Sphenodontidae Cope, 1871 - tuataras
Status: extant
Genus †Cynosphenodon Reynoso, 1996, sedis mutabilis [monotypic]
Status: fossil
Genus †Sphenovipera Reynoso, 2005, sedis mutabilis [monotypic]
Status: fossil
1 ?Genus †Chometokadmon Costa, 1864
Status: fossil
2 ?Genus †Pachystropheus Huene, 1935
Status: fossil
3 ?Genus †Palacrodon Broom, 1906
Status: fossil
4 ?Genus †Scharschengia Huene, 1940
Status: fossil
5.3.1 Genus †Piocormus Wagner, 1852, sedis mutabilis
Status: fossil
5.3.2.2 Genus †Leptosaurus Fitzinger, 1837
Status: fossil
5.3.3.2.2.3 Subfamily Sphenodontinaeᵀ Cope, 1871
Status: extant
6 Subfamily †Eilenodontinae Rasmussen & Callison, 1981
Status: fossil