The PEDIGREE of
Class Sarcopterygii (Lobe-finned Fishes)

     aka Crossopterygii

 "Child(ren)":       Clade of Rhipidistia   ;   Actinistia (coelacanths :: 2 extant species)   ;   Onychodontiformes (extinct)
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/-- Superkingdom Holozoa   +====> [ 68]
/-- 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
/   / or: prob. Clade Nephrozoa
/-- Superphylum Deuterostomia (Chordates, Echinoderms, & kin)
/-- Phylum Chordata (Vertebrates, tunicates, and lancelets)
/-- Clade Craniata
/-- Subphylum Vertebrata  (510 M BC - ?)
/-- Infraphylum Gnathostomata (Jawed Vertebrates)
/-- Microphylum Teleostomi (Bony fishes & Spiny sharks)
/-- Superclass Osteichthyes (Bony fishes)
/  
- Class Sarcopterygii (Lobe-finned Fishes)
 

 
  ``3-Great Grandchildren:''       Subclass Lissamphibia   ;   Microphylum Amniota (Mammals, Reptiles, etc.)
 
  (poss.) ``8-Great Grandchildren:''       Superfamily Raninoidea   ;   Ringed Caecilian   ;   Superorder Lepidosauria   ;   Clade of Archosauria   ;   Subclass Anapsida   ;   Superfamily Chiniquodontoidea
 

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