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After Budd, 2002

<==o Arthropoda (niveljalkaiset)
   |-- LOBOPODA (käsnäjalkaiset; lobopods)
   `--+-- TARDIGRADA (karhukaiset; waterbears)
      `--+-- †Kerygmachela kierkegaardi Budd, 1998 [possibly a anomalocarid]
         |?- †Pambdelurion whittingtoni [possibly a anomalocarid]
         `--+-- †RADIODONTA Collins, 1996 ["Anomalocaria"]
            `--+?- †Habeliidae
               |?- †Molariidae
               |?- †BRADORIIDA
               |?-o †ACANTHOMERIDIIDA
               |  `-- †Acanthomerididae
               |?-o †TUZOIIDA
               |  `-- †Tuzoiidae
               |--o †LEANCHOILIIDA
               |  |-- †Leanchoiliidae
               |  |-- †Actaeidae
               |  `-- †Alalcomenaeidae
               `--+--o †PROSCHIZORAMIA
                  |  `--o †YOHONIIDA
                  |     `-- †Yohoiidae
                  `--+--o †SANCTACARIDEA
                     |  `--o †SANCTACARIDA
                     |     `-- †Sanctacarididae
                     `--+--+--o †FORTIFORCIPIDA
                        |  |  `-- †Fortiforcipidae
                        |  `--+-- †Occacaris
                        |     `--+-- †Clypecaris
                        |        `--+--o †YUNNATA
                        |           |  `--o †FUXIANHUIIDA
                        |           |     |-- †Fuxianhuiidae
                        |           |     `-- †Chengjiangocarididae
                        |           `--o †PARACRUSTACEA
                        |              `--o †CANADASPIDIDA
                        |                 |-- †Canadasipididae
                        |                 |-- †Hymenocarididae [jr. synon. to Canadaspididae?]
                        |                 `-- †Perspicarididae
                        `--o Euarthropoda [Schizoramia]
                           |--+?- PYCNOGONIDA (merilukit)
                           |  `-- EUCHELICERATA (hämähäkkieläimet)
                           `--+--o †XENOPODA
                              |  |--o †EMERALDELLIDA
                              |  |  `-- †Emeraldellidae
                              |  `--o †LIMULAVIDA
                              |     `-- †Sidneyiidae
                              `--o MANDIBULATA ()
                                 |-- MYRIAPODA [Millipedia] (tuhatjalkaiset)
                                 `--o PANCRUSTACEA
                                    |-- HEXAPODA (hyönteiset)
                                    `-- CRUSTACEA (äyriäiset)

Reference(s):

Budd, G. E., 2002: A palaeontological solution to the arthropod head problem.
–Nature: Vol. 417, pp. 271-275

Giribet, G., Edgecombe, G. D. & Wheeler, W. C., 2001: Arthropod phylogeny based on eight molecular loci and morphology.
–Nature: Vol. 413, pp. 157-161

Hwang, U. W., Friedrich, M., Tautz, D., Park, C. J. & Kim, W., 2001: Mitochondrial protein phylogeny joins myriapods with chelicerates.
–Nature: Vol. 413, pp. 154-157

 

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