The PEDIGREE of
Phylum Loricifera (Brush Heads)

     (one of the most recently discovered phyla, they are found in a very wide variety of ocean sediments); aka Class Loricifera

 "Child(ren)":       Order Nanaloricida   ;   100 undescribed species   ;   Sirilorica (extinct)
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/-- Superempire Unikonta   +====> [ 56]
/   / OR: Kingdom Opisthokonta   +====> [ 56]
/-- Empire of Opisthokonts (Fungi & Animals)
/   / OR: Opisthokonts [Cavalier-Smith model]   +====> [ 67]
/-- Superkingdom Holozoa
/-- Kingdom of Apoikozoa (Animals)
/-- Subkingdom of Metazoa (Multicellular Animals)
/-- Superbranch Eumetazoa
/-- Superphylum Planulozoa
/-- Clade of Bilateria and Placozoa
/   / (skip this generation?)
/-- Branch Bilateria
/-- Infrakingdom (Grade) of Coelomates  (570 M BC)
/   / (skip this generation?)
/-- Subgrade of Protostomia
/   / or: Clade Nephrozoa
/-- Superphylum Ecdysozoa (Arthropods, Roundworms, etc.)
/-- Supraphylum Cycloneuralia (Pseudocoelomates)
/-- Clade Scalidophora (Mud Dragons & kin)
/-- Clade Vinctiplicata (Brush Heads & Penis Worms)
/  
- Phylum Loricifera (Brush Heads)
 

 
  ``1-Great Grandchild:''       Genus Australoricus (certain brush head)
 

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