Natura - nature
Status: extant
actualia - actual entities
Status: extant
Mundus Plinius - physical world
Status: extant
naturalia - natural bodies
Status: extant
[crown] Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
Status: extant
Clade neomura Cavalier-Smith, 1987
Period: Pre-Ediacaran - Present (4567 Ma - present); Status: extant
Domain Eukaryota Chatton, 1925 - eukaryotes
Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Status: extant
Clade discaria Cavalier-Smith, 2021
Status: extant
Clade dorsates Cavalier-Smith, 2021
Status: extant
Clade podiates Cavalier-Smith, 2012
Period: Pre-Ediacaran - Present (4567 Ma - present); Status: extant
[crown] Clade Amorphea Adl et al. 2012 [Simpson, Medina & Adl 2020]
Status: extant
[crown] Clade Obazoa Brown, Sharpe, Silberman, Heiss, Lang, Simpson & Roger 2013
Status: extant
[crown] Clade Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith 1987 [Simpson & Medina 2020] - animal-fungal clade
Status: extant
Superkingdom Holozoa Lang, O'Kelly, Nerad, Gray & Burger, 2002
Status: extant
Clade filozoa Shalchian-Tabrizi, Minge, Espelund, Orr, Ruden, Jakobsen & Cavalier-Smith, 2008
Status: extant
Kingdom Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Status: extant
Clade Planulozoa Wallberg, Thollesson, Farris & Jondelius 2004
Status: extant
Subkingdom Bilateria Hatschek, 1888 - bilaterians
Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Status: extant
Clade Nephrozoa Jondelius, Ruiz-Trillo, Baguñà & Riutort 2002
Status: extant
Infrakingdom Deuterostomia Grobben, 1908
Status: extant
Phylum Chordata Bateson, 1885 - chordates
Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Status: extant
Subphylum Vertebrata Cuvier, 1812 - vertebrates
Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Status: extant
Myopterygii - myopterygians
Status: extant
Superclass Gnathostomata Gegenbaur, 1874 - jawed vertebrates
Status: extant
Grade Teleostomi Bonaparte, 1836
Status: extant
Euteleostomi - bony vertebrates
Status: extant
Clade Sarcopterygii Romer, 1955
Status: extant
[crown] Rhipidistia Cope, 1887
Status: extant
Clade Tetrapodomorpha Ahlberg, 1991
Status: extant
Clade Osteolepidimorpha
Status: extant
Clade Tetrapoda Hatschek & Cori 1896 [Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe 1988]
Distribution: Palearctic/Europe (marine, freshwater & terrestrial); Status: extant
[crown] Clade Neotetrapoda
Status: extant
Clade Reptiliomorpha Säve-Söderbergh, 1934
Status: extant
Batrachosauria
Status: extant
[crown] Clade Amniota Haeckel, 1866 [Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe 1988] - amniotes
Status: extant
Class Reptilia Linnaeus, 1758 - reptiles
Status: extant
Eureptilia Olson, 1947
Status: extant
Romeriida Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe, 1988
Status: extant
Clade Diapsida Osborn 1903 [Gauthier & de Queiroz 2020]
Status: extant
[crown] Clade Neodiapsida Benton 1985
Status: extant
Clade Pan-Archelosauria W.G. Joyce, J. Anquetin, E. Cadena, J. Claude, I.G. Danilov, S.W. Evers, ..., J.F. Parham 2021, sedis mutabilis
Status: extant
[crown] Clade Archelosauria N.G. Crawford, J.F. Parham, A.B. Sellas, B.C. Faircloth, T.C. Glenn, T.J. Papenfuss, ..., W.B. Simison 2015 [W.G. Joyce, J. Anquetin, E. Cadena, J. Claude, I.G. Danilov, S.W. Evers, ..., J.F. Parham 2021]
Status: extant
Clade Pan-Archosauria Gauthier 2020
Status: extant
Clade Archosauromorpha von Huene 1946 [Gauthier 2020]
Status: extant
Clade Crocopoda Ezcurra 2016
Status: extant
Clade Archosauriformes Gauthier 1994 [Gauthier 2020]
Status: extant
Clade Crurotarsi Sereno & Arcucci 1990
Period: Early Triassic - Present (252.17 Ma - present); Status: extant
[crown] Clade Archosauriaᵀ Cope 1869 [Gauthier & Padian 2020]
Status: extant
Clade Pan-Aves Gauthier & de Queiroz 2001 [M. Ezcurra, S. Nesbitt, M. Bronzati, F. Dalla Vecchia, F. Agnolin, R. Benson, ..., M. Langer 2020]
Status: extant
Clade Ornithodira Gauthier 1986 [M. Ezcurra, S. Nesbitt, M. Bronzati, F. Dalla Vecchia, F. Agnolin, R. Benson, ..., M. Langer 2020]
Status: extant
Clade Dinosauromorpha Benton 1985 [M. Ezcurra, S. Nesbitt, M. Bronzati, F. Dalla Vecchia, F. Agnolin, R. Benson, ..., M. Langer 2020]
Status: extant
Clade Dinosauriformes Novas 1992 [M. Ezcurra, S. Nesbitt, M. Bronzati, F. Dalla Vecchia, F. Agnolin, R. Benson, ..., M. Langer 2020]
Status: extant
Clade Dracohorsᵀ Cau 2018
Status: extant
Clade Dinosauria Owen 1842 [Langer, Novas, Bittencourt, Ezcurra & Gauthier 2020]
Status: extant
Clade Saurischia Seeley 1888 [Gauthier, Langer, Novas, Bittencourt & Ezcurra 2020]
Status: extant
Clade Eusaurischia Padian et al. 1999
Status: extant
Clade Theropoda Marsh 1881 [Naish, Cau, Holtz Jr., Fabbri & Gauthier 2020]
Status: extant
Clade Neotheropoda Bakker 1986 [Sereno 1998]
Period: Late Triassic - Present (237 Ma - present); Status: extant
Clade Averostraᵀ Paul 2002
Period: Early Jurassic - Present (201.3 Ma - present); Status: extant
Clade Tetanurae Gauthier 1986
Period: Early Jurassic - Present (201.3 Ma - present); Status: extant
Clade Orionides Carrano, Benson & Sampson 2012
Status: extant
Clade Avetheropoda Paul 1988 [Padian et al. 1999]
Period: Middle Jurassic - Present (174.1 Ma - present); Status: extant
Clade Coelurosauria Huene 1914 [Gauthier 1986]
Period: Middle Jurassic - Present (174.1 Ma - present); Status: extant
Clade Tyrannoraptora Sereno 1999, nom. cl. inval.
Status: extant
Clade Maniraptoriformes Holtz 1995 [Holtz 1996]
Period: Late Jurassic - Present (163.5 Ma - present); Status: extant
Clade Maniraptora Gauthier 1986
Period: Late Jurassic - Present (163.5 Ma - present); Status: extant
Clade Pennaraptora Foth et al. 2014
Status: extant
Clade Paraves Sereno 1997 [Sereno 1998]
Period: Late Jurassic - Present (163.5 Ma - present); Status: extant
Clade Avialae Gauthier 1986
Period: Late Jurassic - Present (163.5 Ma - present); Status: extant
Subclass Aves Linnaeus, 1758
Status: extant
Clade Pygostylia Chatterjee 1997 [Chiappe 2001]
Status: extant
Clade Ornithothoraces Chiappe 1995
Status: extant
Clade Ornithuromorpha Chiappe 2001
Status: extant
Clade Ornithurae Haeckel 1866 [Gauthier 1986] {Chiappe 1991}
Status: extant
Clade Carinatae Merrem 1813 [Gauthier & de Queiroz 2001]
Status: extant
[crown] Clade Neornithes Gadow, 1893 - living birds
Status: extant
Cohort Neognathae Pycraft, 1900
Status: extant
Subcohort Galloanserae Sibley, Ahlquist & Monroe Jr., 1988 [monotypic]
Status: extant
Superorder Galloanserimorphaeᵀ Sibley, Ahlquist & Monroe Jr., 1988
Status: extant
1 Order Galliformes Temminck, 1820 - fowl
Distribution: Holarctic/Arctic; Status: extant
2 Order †Dromornithiformes Fürbringer, 1888
Status: fossil
3 Order †Diatrymiformes Shufeldt, 1913 [monotypic]
Status: fossil
4 Order Anseriformes Wagler, 1831 - waterfowl and screamers
Distribution: Atlantic (marine); Status: extant