The PEDIGREE of
Clade of Proteobacteria & Planctobacteria

     (non-Proteobacteria classes here collectively called Planctobacteria)
 "Child(ren)":       Phylum Proteobacteria (purple bacteria & kin)   ;   Class Alphaproteobacteria   ;   Phylum Chlamydiae & poss. Phylum Chloroflexi (green nonsulfur bacteria)   ;   Phylum Planctomycetes   ;   Phylum Lentisparae   ;   Phylum Verrucomicopbia
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/-- Earth before collision   +====> [ 31]
/-- Earth Collides with Theia
/  \-- Pre-collision Theia   +====> [ 31]
/-- Earth of Cryptic Era (Hadean Eon)
/-- Earth of Basin Groups Era (Hadean Eon)
/-- Earth of Nectarian Era (Hadean Eon)
/-- Earth of Lower Imbrian Era (Hadean Eon)
/-- Earth of Eoarchean Era (Archean Eon)
/-- Non-reproducing Precursor Organism
/-- Earliest life (Based on Peptide Nucleic Acid)
| \ / or: polyamide nucleic acid
|  | / or: glycol nucleic acid or: threose nucleic acid
/  \-- Montmorillonite-based Vesicles
/-- Earlier life (Based on RNA)  (3850+ M BC)
/   / (skip this generation?)
/-- Earlier Life (Based on RNA and Protein)
/-- Last Universal Ancestor of Present Life
| \ / OR: Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA)   +====> [ 9]
| | /-- Alkaline hydrothermal vents
/  \-- Tiny cavities in iron sulphide rocks
/-- Proto-Bacteria  (3700 M BC)
/-- Glycobacteria (Traditional Model)
/-- Gracilicutes (Traditional Model)
/   / OR: Subkingdom Hydrobacteria (Terra-Hydro Model)   +====> [ 45]
- Clade of Proteobacteria & Planctobacteria
 
 
  ``Grandchildren:''       Class Alphaproteobacteria   ;   Class Deltaproteobacteria   ;   Class Gammaproteobacteria   ;   Subclass Rickettsidae   ;   A certain Alpha-Proteobacterium   ;   Subclass Caulobacteridae
 

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