Taxonomy/Sandbox

=Superkingdom - Archosaganizoa=

Kingdom - Mancerxia
(these would be among the hardest-hit kingdoms in an alternate Sagan 4, the End-Huggian coronal mass ejection completely exterminating the Florapodia clade and leaving behind only the Protomancerxia Thermaparasitica as the kingdom’s sole surviving representative. With almost all available animal niches filled by descendants of the Binucleudetritivorus Thornworm, Carpotesta Luceremundare, and the Lilstar - the base of a completely unique Sagani “animal kingdom” - the Ukfauna and Rotoradiazoa would never have a chance of evolving (taken up by the shellstars and various asterzalians), and all future descendants of the thermaparasitica would retreat into quieter, microbial niches, most notably becoming the most diverse lineage of pathogen on the planet, gorging on the cytosols of countless host cells and pumping them full of enzymes with their proboscis organelles. Recently however, an offshoot of the Grapplers - a clade of actively predatory alternate Mancerxians - has taken up a blight-like fungal niche, aptly referred to as Starblights) (Amusingly enough, one phylum of asterzoan would converge eerily close to the long-lost florapods, right down to the paired fronds and cloaca-mouth, although - perhaps save for the curious Pitfall Asterplent and its descendants - this form would be exclusively sessile in the adult stage, unlike the generally quite peripatetic plents.)

Class - Chlorotheria

 * Subclass - Comosuida (noboms)

Order - Xylodontiformes
Suborder - Xylures (post-pulmonary tail)(families might need to be revised?) Super======Family -====== Formicomimoidea (noants)

Family -
(yellowdundi descendants)

Family -
Xylomydae (norats)

Family -
Lacertamydae (nolizards) Sub======Family -====== Auripodinae (eardiggers)

Family -
Xylochoeridae (pipents, paraphyletic to nailfins)

Family -
Nectodactylidae (nailfins) Familly - Xylogulidae (noggers and nogbarrels)

Family -
Monocruidae (tailhopping nodents)

Family -
Yureitheridae (geistrats)

Family -
Baragonimimidae (trogagons, etymology references Baragon, a fictional monster from the one of sapient cultures of,.. What was that planet named again? E- eeaa- something. Eea, that’s it! Anyway the people on there called themselves Homos or Homins (Hommen?) iirc. I think they look like shaven lemupuses with less eyes?? No tails though.) Sub=====Order -===== Nodontia (Etymology of “no-” prefix unknown. Possibly related to “nobom”? But why are they called “nobom tooth”? Other noboms have teeth too! The worlds may never know.) Noboms But Toothier, Obviously. Nodent sounds weirdly like its some kind of obscure pun, but I can’t think what that would be. Maybe its a reference to the Lord of the Abyss, Nodens? But that doesn’t make much sense. That wouldn’t be the first time a Sagan 4 species has been named after an Elder God (or more accurately, it’s steed), but it still doesn’t make any contextual sense.

Family -
Nodontidae (noteeth)

Family -
Paracastoridae (neavers)

Order
- Kitriformes (ketters) Sub=====Order -===== Eukitrii (ketters) Sub=====Order -===== Ambulodendrae (sanasou-ki)

Order
- Allonariformes (nobits)

Family -
Ceratomoidae (earlbits)

Family -
Dynanaridae (true buttblasters)

Family -
Cicutonaridae (buttpipers)

Order -
Comosuiiformes (basal noboms)

Family -
Mycophagidae (shroomplents) Infraclass - Pterophylla Super=====Order -===== Pancursoria (sprinters + cousins)
 * Subclass - Dinophylla
 * Clade - Rostroferra

Order -
Cursoria (crown-sprinters)
 * Sub=====Order -===== Eucursoriformes
 * Super======Family -====== Miasmornithoidea (gasprinters)
 * Super======Family -====== Eucursoroidea

Family
- Teratocursoridae (sprintzillas)

Family
- Talpamimidae (spelunkhoes) *Sub======Family -====== Spatharynchinae (stem-spelunkhoes) *Sub======Family -====== Talpamiminae *Sub======Family -====== Thylacotalpinae (hikahoes) *Sub======Family -====== Sagmatalpinae (leafplates, “saddle-moles”)

Family
- Volanspedidae (hophorns) *Sub======Family -====== Macropodmiminae (stem-bounders)

Family
- Conchoanatidae (leafshells, “shell-ducks”)
 * Super======Family -====== Spheniscimimoidea (snoas)

Family
- Spheniscimimidae

Family
- Vomadentidae (jaydohves)

Family
- Pachystruthidae (dobem) ======Family====== - Protocursoridae (early sprinters)
 * Sub=====Order -===== (everything excluding the magmasprinter and descendants)

Order -
Karynchiformes (stem-sprinters)

Family
- Plentutidae

Family
- (plentivers)

Family
- Albapteridae (White-Backed Plent and Spectre Plentutri) Super=====Order -===== Euphylloptera

Order -
Volaphyta (phylers)

Family
- Acanthophalangidae (needlewings) *Sub======Family -====== Phalangipodinae (plehexapods) ======Family====== - Pomopteridae (fruit phlyers) ======Family====== - Leptorostridae (longbeak phylers) ======Family====== - Blumberolynidae (pudglyns) ======Family====== - Mimilynidae (Aabaalki and Plesican) *Sub======Family -====== Saccocetinae (plesicans) ======Family====== - Pterohippidae (phlocks) ======Family====== - Tetrapteridae (tetrawings) ======Family====== - Harpagorostridae (true hookphlyers) ======Family====== - Laropteridae (gull-like phlyers)
 * Super======Family -====== Eophyllopteroidea (basal phlyers)
 * Super======Family -====== Harpagorostroidea (hookphlyers)

Family
- (armored phlyers) ======Family====== - Pleriemidae (Pleriema)
 * Super======Family -====== Apodopteroidea (sky phlyers)

Order -
Insulapteriformes (pakahes)

Order
- Leptorhynchiformes

Family -
Spherophagidae Sub======Family -====== (glowlickers)

Family -
Ctenodontidae (combstrainers)

Family -
Carrolidae (bandersnatches)

Family -
(lizard-like plents - descendants of the chutslonaga)

Family -
Glossogyrinidae (tanteato and descendants)

Order
- Pelagiphylliformes

Order
- Chlorocetoformes (“skywhale” plents)
 * Super=====Order -===== Barbelloferra

Order
- Glossotheriformes (gulpers) Super======Family -====== Brontoglossoidea (tazertongues)

Family -
Gossyteguidae (cottoncoats)

Family -
Brontoglossidae (basal tazertongues, Sagon) Super======Family -====== Galeaglossoidea (helmeted gulpers)

Family -
Archaeoglossidae (saggulpers)

Order -
Ursichoeria (basal bearhogs)

Order -
Ungularctimorpha (everything descending from the pleeduh) Sub=====Order -===== Pantheripodiformes (stem-hoofplents) Sub=====Order -===== Unguarctiformes (crown-hoofplents, “bear-hooves”) Super======Family -====== Unguiarctoidea ======Family====== - Probosciursidae (reaching hoofbears, dualtrunks) ======Family====== - Gulobarbidae (briarbacks) ======Family====== - Talparctidae (whiskerslurps and thornmoles) ======Family====== - Teratoceratidae (hornface hoofplents) *Sub======Family -====== Cornufacinae *Sub======Family -====== Aardvarkmiminae (snoofloos) *Sub======Family -====== Diabloceratinae (demoggs)

Order -
Deliriutheria (plandas and plandaphants) (We should have had these things eradicated when they first started to propagate, the horrid fucking things. While my coworkers seem to comprehend the issue, I will never properly fathom why the administration insists that the- these- monstrosities be left to thrive on this world.) (Approximate translation from an anonymous Naucean head researcher, Interview Log ÞÆXXŁŜ-48923)

Family -
Ipsomalutheridae (planda)

Family -
Atopotheridae (plandaphants)

Class
- Phyllichthia

Order
- Brontodontiformes

Family -
Percutidae (shockers)

Order
- Lystrocephalia

Family -
Lystrocephalidae

Family -
Phyllomantidae Super=====Order -===== Pueriplentimorpha (swarmers)

Order -
Pueriplentiformes (basal swarmers)

Order -
Neomancerxales (plyents)

Order -
Volatiformes (cloudswarmers)

Family -
Natatoresnimbidae (insect-like cloudswarmers)

Order -
Cryoherpetiformes (diveskimos, “icy-crawlers”) Super======Family -====== Tripoidea (triwalkers)

Family -
Tripodidae (Tripodian, Pygmipodian, and Tripodician)

Family -
Prototripodidae (basal triwalkers) Super======Family -====== Ligniteguloidea (scaleskimos)

Family -
Lignitegulidae

Order -
Brontobatrachiaformes (scooters, scientific name approximately translates to “thunder frogs”)

Family -
Scootypufjridae (amphibian scooters)

Order -
Mancerxiculae (mini/microswarmers)

Order -
Arthroplenti (descendants of the jointed swarmer)

Family -
Crustaceamimidae (scuttlers)

Family -
Scansiflorapedae (Snatcherswarmer)

Order -
Noctoplentiformes (darkswarmers)

Class
- Dendromorpha

Order -
Diploramales (double plents)

Order -
Leffoales (leffoes)

Order -
Flabellales (basal floral plents)

Phylum
- Konydonta (ukfauna, changed the name from probosciferra to konydonta because that was the original alpha name, I see nothing wrong with it and it sounds more original/distinctive for such a major taxonomic entity - same with the magneferrubiota below.) Superclass - Quadrapodia (krilliformes)

Class
- Arachnopodia

Order -
Arachnoformicida (colonial uksips) Super=====Order -===== (ukbacks sensu lato)

Order -
Pseudopulmentariodorsiformes (ukbacks)

Order -
(riverskippers)

Family -
(proto-ukbacks)

Family -
(Riverskipper and Ukrequin)

Family -
Picosumminatidae (mikuks; Meiofaunal ukfauna)

Order -
(basal arachnopodes)

Class
- Spinipodia

Order -
(urchips) Super======Family -====== Ambulocochloidea (uktanks)

Family -
Auraconchidae (eared uktanks)

Family -
Monolystridae (basal uktanks) what is the etymology of this? Specifically the “gomphi-” part. Yes I know there are ‘gomphotheres’ but. Changed it a little, the “lystro-” is ancient greek for shovel. Under the impression that “gompho-” meant something similar

Family -
Branchioconchidae (greengills)

Family -
Tubistomatidae (filtering urchips excluding the urstar clade) Super======Family -====== Asterospinoidea (urstars)

Family -
Belumbidae (belumbias)

Family -
Konasteridae (other urstars)

Family -
(Urmelia)

Order -
(urpois, urhooks)

Family -
Tegulopiscidae (basal urpishes)

Family -
Peloropiscidae (urpois)

Family -
Ceaculimacidae (urhooks)

Family -
Demmuranidae (ureels)

Class
- Luliformia

Order
- Monodontotheres (snowkys)
 * Super======Family -====== Xenosirenoidea

Family -
Xenosirenidae (crymaids)

Family -
Sirenipodidae (walking karyowees)

Family -
Amplafeoidae

Family
- Ramphoceratidae (narkys) Phylum - Protomancerxia Class - Rotoradiazoa

Order -
Polyradia (podwhorls)

Order -
Reteturbenia (netwhorls)

Family -
Haloradidae (Salt Bog Bowlwhorl)

Order -
Spiralancea (whorl needlers)

Order -
Euradiazoa (basal whorls)

Kingdom
- Binucleozoa Division - Coelomycites
 * Clade - Crystallizoa (In another Sagan 4, these would become the single most dominant large flora on the planet. The Binucleus Stella Dodecahedron and the Binucleus Stellaricrystal would also live on to give rise to further descendants.)
 * Clade - Saganivermes (in another timeline, the Saganivermes would consist almost exclusively of ecdyszoa-like fauna, such as the megafaunal Arthrotheria, and the moss-like Heliovermids. Instead, Saganivermes in this Sagan 4 would also give rise to mollusk- and chordate-like forms (as well as the arthropod- and annelid-like forms present in both timelines), while organisms like arthrotheres would never have evolved. Their closest equivalent may be some of the larger kruggs and lizardworms. The knightworms - a more basal clade from whence the arthrotheres derived - are mainly analogous to the Frabukis and Vermees of this timeline, being small, generalist exoskeletal worms. A closely-coverging taxon to the heliovermes has been derived from the wingworm lineage, but sadly these novel organisms are completely extinct. Early stem-conchosaganians lived a niche somewhat similar to the Hellworms of alternate Sagan 4.)

Phylum
- Terrascolida

Class
- Plumosovermia Subclass - Euplumosovermia Super=====Order -===== Dodecapteramorpha (wingworms)

Order -
Dodecapteraformes (basal wingworms)

Order -
Solariscoliciformes (treeworms)

Order -
Patagiavermes (slugworms) Super======Family -====== Xenoapoidea (xenobees and bambelins) ======Family====== - Xenoapidae Super======Family -====== Arthropennoidea (clickworms and janits) ======Family====== - Aedificidae (janits, “builders”) Super======Family -====== Diablomuscoidea (darbolas, “devil-flies”)

Order -
Phaneroptera (clear-wing worm and descendants)

Order -
Elytraphora (pollenworms and sapworms)

Order -
Anoptidorates (dartirs and cousins, “no-eyed spear-havers”)

Family -
Spiculatidae (crown-dartirs)

Order -
Nectopennae (finworms)

Order -
Cornoptera (antlerworms)

Family -
Mastacornidae (butcherworms)

Order -
Lapsovermi (sagworms)

Clade - Dinovermia Class - Ophistophagia (buttworms) Class - Pansaganicarcinia (Sagani arthropoda)

Order
- Saganicarciniformes (scuttlecrabs) Super======Family -====== Kruggectoidea (kruggs)

Family -
Fortecavoridae (fortresscrabs)

Family -
Saltocancridae (scuttlehoppers)

Family -
Saganicarcinidae (basal scuttlecrabs)

Order
- Entomosauriformes (lizardworms)

Family -
Kaijuscolidae (brute lizardworms) Super======Family -====== Textilisauroidea (gossalizards) Class - Phobovermia Super=====Order -===== Bipediformes (saucebacks)

Order -
Mandibuladonta Sub=====Order -===== Plumoplacaformes (feathered saucebacks) (scorpion saucebacks, waxfaces, sanashies, loafshells, harnessbacks, hagloxes, larvaback) Thoughts? Umm. I’m not familiar enough with the exact relations of these taxa to make any sound judgements. Waxfaces should perhaps be made a superfamily?
 * Families? Superfamilies?

Order -
Phobognathiformes (vicious sauceback and descendants)

Order -
Harenaevermiformes (stem-saucebacks)

Order -
Paluscoliformes

Family -
Branchioramidae

Family -
Chelonoscolidae Phylum - Pterigiophora Class - Ichthyomimia

Order -
Pneumadorsiformes (gillfins, “breathing-backs”) Super=====Order -===== Caudabranchia (gilltails)

Order -
(pumpgills)

Order -
(longtail gilltails) Super=====Order -===== Psitticacephalimorpha (parrotworms)

Order -
Palugyriniformes (waterworms+phibis)

Order -
Pathophagiformes (plagus)

Order -
Psitticacephaliformes (basal parrotworms) Class - Protopterigiophora (stem-beakworms) Phylum - Conchosagania Class - Euconchosagania (crown-bubblehorns)

Order -
Polyconchiformes (fraboos)

Order -
Holostraciformes (shellworms)

Family -
Mysmastacidae (Ocabulabamn)

Family -
Obscurovermidae

Family -
Crustavermidae Super======Family -====== Contegovermoidea (pedesorms sensu lato)

Family -
(Shieldworm)

Family -
Scelivermidae (pedesorms, “leg-worms”)

Order -
Coprostracaformes (dunghorns and descendants) Sub=====Order -===== Folioconcha (leafhorns and descendants) Super======Family -====== Pictoplacoidea (painted leafhorn and descendants)

Family -
Kosembarlovidae (Snaialowe)

Family -
Pictoplacidae (venomous leafhorns)

Family -
Foliconchidae (Leafhorn)

Family -
Nasokeridae (Hornsniffer) Super======Family -====== Coprostracoidea (dunghorns sensu lato)

Family -
Coprostracidae (dunghorns)

Family -
Petrostracidae (stonehorns)

Order -
Calcilimaciformes (smaraslim bubblehorn and descendants) Class - Protoconchosagania (stem-bubblehorns) Kingdom - Hexabiota Subkingdom - Phoenozoa (purple flora and krakowpedes)(Another Sagan 4 would still have purple flora, but deriving from a lineage completely independent of the Hexabiota and wholly exclusive to that timeline. In fact, neither the core purple flora or the related krakowpedes would survive the End-Huggian coronal mass ejection, and only the Krakowhexia Symbiotae would be the sole surviving representative of both subkingdoms, eventually deriving a distinct lineage of tiny, photosynthetic sponge-like organisms.) Clade - Terraphoeniphyta Division - Spherophyta Class - Mauvospheropsida (violetglobes) Class - Manitofloropsida (shroom flora)
 * Subkingdom - Nimbuzoa (nimbuses)

Order -
Mycocrinales (filtershrooms) Super=====Order -===== Class - Glycismopsida (loppies+gemorbs) Class - Kyvopsida (stickycubes) Class - Siderobullopsida (rusty stickyballs and derived taxa) Sublass - Knodospheropsida (fuzzy balls)

Order -
Hirsupalmales (fuzzpalms)

Order -
Erinacaulales (quillballs, “hedgehog-cauls”) Division - Saganifructa Class - Phoenipoae

Order -
Phoenipoales

Family -
Valandidendroceae (quilbils+gecobas) Sub======Family -====== Valandipinoideae (quones) Sub======Family -====== Valandicarpoideae (qupes) Sub======Family -====== Gecoboideae (Gecobas)

Family -
Xiphapoaceae (purpleblades)

Family -
Halophyllaceae

Order -
Phoenipsillales

Family -
Phagopsillaceae (basal carnoferns)

Family -
Somnocaulaceae (deciduous carnoferns)

Family -
Psillopinoceae (ferines) Sub======Family -====== Quercupinoideae (descendants of the Arid Ferine)

Family -
Articulataxaceae (segmented carnofern)

Order -
Pulmonoidorhizales

Family -
Pulmonoidorhrhizaceae Subamily - Riparhizoideae

Family -
Vilosaphyllaceae

Order -
Nievuphyllales

Family -
Tuffdraceae

Family -
Lystrophyllaceae (Temperate Spade-Leaf and kin)

Family -
Ventorhizoiceae (windbulbs)

Order -
Pambuales (pambus)

Order -
Siderophorales (rust plants)

Order -
Phoenotyphalaes Class - Acinumeropsida

Order -
Orbiflorales (orbiflora)

Order -
Volagranales (lightberries) “Luxales” is more “not dark” than “not heavy”, etymologically speaking. I just assumed that the lightberries were bioluminescent, being unfamilar with the group myself.

Order -
Piloflorales (flufflestalks) Class - Geluanthopsida

Order -
Psycroanthales (snow puffs)

Order -
Streptorhizales (tangle roots) Class - Saganicucurbitopsida (puffkins) Division - Venophylla Class - Venophyllopsida

Order -
Venophyllales

Family -
Xidhoraceae Sub======Family -====== Trabaleavoideae (Trunkplages)

Family -
Saepelignaceae (hedgelogs)

Family -
Frigusplicaceae (Purplico)

Family -
Testudopotionaceae (basal purplages)

Order -
Venobryales

Family -
Venobryaceae (stem-purplages) Division - Xenopalma (blue palms) Division - Bullophora (bubble flora) Class - Saganiphyceae (water bubbleweeds)

Order -
Aerobullales

Order -
Bullovinales (Hereus flora)

Order -
Eusaganiphycales (less-derived aquatic bubbleweeds) Class - Conflagropsida (land bubbleweeds)

Order -
Arcocaudacales (arch flora, “arc-trunks”)

Family -
Nebularhizaceae (air-arches)

Order -
Ignisporales (inferno trees)

Order -
Bullocactales Division - Vandruoria (vandriswoops) Class - Vandruoropsida

Order -
Vandruales

Family -
Pillunanaceae

Family -
Laciyennasaltaceae (Retigroenx)

Family -
Ambiyennataceae (Yumerhing)

Family -
Aurisporaceae (vulkyen)

Order -
Agrostomimales

Family -
Aureupoaceae Division - Caelucarpae (purjephen and descendants, “sky-fruits”) Clade - Testudohexapodiae Division - Phoenophycae Class - Feturadiopsida

Order -
Auraphorales (humms)

Order -
Ramphophyllales Division - Euhexapodia Class - Silicostracopsida (testudiatoms) Class - Hexapodiopsida (early purple algae)

Phylum
- Segmentocaudazoa (krakowpedes)

Class
- Anipeda (krillipedes-bubblepedes)

Order -
Archaeopeda (early anipedes)

Family -
Atrumreptidae

Family -
Bullocaulidae

Order -
Scorpiocarida (stem-krillipedes)

Family -
Scorpiocaridae

Family -
Contortocaridae (nautipedes)

Family -
Nedidae (nedes)

Order -
Saganiphausacea (krillipedes)

Family -
Protoremidae (krillipedes)

Family -
Speleacaridae (cavepedes)

Family -
Yoktocaridae (islepedes)

Family -
Perambulacaridae (vivus island pedes)

Family -
Zoidbergidae (zoisters)

Class
- Pluriptera

Order -
Anipterygia (centiworms) Super======Family -====== Diplosuroidea (inchers)

Order -
Krakowophida (slitherworms)

Family -
Pterigyophidae (arthrofins)

Family -
Scorpiophidae (scropodiles)

Family -
Eukrakowophidae (true slitherworms)

Order -
Ichthyoscolopendriformes (seadragoldens)

Order -
Tricauliformes (tregons)

Family -
Trispondylidae

Family -
Triscolidae (triple seadragolden)

Order -
Campanocephaliformes (echofins)

Order -
Remipterygiformes (centifins)

Class
- Abyssovermes (trapper fauna)

Order -
Teratocrinoformes (trapinouts)

Family -
Teratocrinidae (basal trapinouts)

Family -
Polycrinidae (everything descending from the colonial trapinout)

Family -
Viisipreseidae (spoisoreth and descendants)

Family -
Ambulocrinidae (kleparthirs)

Family -
Plokamocribridae (trapinfilters, name means roughly ‘tentacle sieve’)

Order -
Stygiognathiformes (marfos+ventraps)

Order -
Stilletiformes (Xxeljets and allies, everything not descending from the marollon)

Family -
Xxelidae

Kingdom
- Carpozoa (In another timeline, this kingdom would be among the only few notable “animal” lineages, but in Sagan 4 Alpha, Carpozoa is only among the largest of many independent lineages of fauna. All extant multicellular carpofauna in this timeline derive from the Carpotesta Luceremundare, as neither the versatile Lilstar, the fungus-like Carpotesta linkteneresca, or the various multitenerescan predator microbes evolved in this timeline. Coincidentally, the early voloxes and geletaventrians possess remarkable physiological convergences at a glance, save for only one pair of eyes, a mouth rimmed with tentacles, and gills closer to the mouth in the ancient Carpotesta Devoratori, whereas the Volox Luceremundare possesses three pairs of eyes and no oral tentacles.)

Phylum
- Saganispondyla (Notably, this phylum contains only a few extant aquatic lineages. By comparison, the geletaventria - the phylum’s closest alternate counterpart - are quite diverse in marine ecosystems of all photic strata and have only recently forayed onto dry land, those being the Scarletshell Sandhopper and its descendants)

Class
- Saganisqualia Clade - Eusaganisqualia

Order -
Dracosqualiformes (scylarians)

Family -
Dracosqualidae (basal scylarians)

Family -
Teratocetidae (lyngbakrs)

Family -
Hafagufidae (thrasher scylarian and descendants)

Family -
Infernocetidae (rhodix scylarians)

Family -
Slaesosauridae

Order -
Snalinia (snarks)

Family -
Snalinidae (luceremundare serpentes and basal snarks)

Family -
Bhuyawmhidae (gharks)

Family -
Snallachiidae (brute snarks)

Family -
Branchiorhinidae (comet snark and gillcrests)

Order -
Rapacicetes (snatches)

Family -
Hydrocollidae (crown-snatches) Clade - Protosaganispondyla

Order -
Volociformes

Order -
Carposerpentes
 * Clade - Saganipoda (the suffix “-theria” is rarely used outside of describing mammal-like taxa)

Class
- Caudapodia Super=====Order -===== Lactaphorae (shrew fauna)

Order -
Soricilacertiformes (paraphyletic - sprawling, reptiloid shrews other than the vampire shrews, stems to the extant crown-groups)

Order -
Carpolycaformes (basal shrew fauna, “synapsidoids”)

Family -
Cynopithecidae (wolf shrews and cantros. Although the family itself is innocent of such horrors, in the realm of Unexistence, a terrifying abomination known as the Chimpus now lies, blissfully forgotten by the clean, ignorant lands of Sagan 4.) GLORY TO CHIMLOPZOK Sub======Family -====== Cynoraptorininae (wolf shrews) Sub======Family -====== Parasumininae (cantros)

Family -
Lutrisauridae (aqua-shrews)

Family -
Cthonomystacidae (Basilotter)

Order -
Soriciformes

Family -
(shroots, xolagoba)

Family -
Chuttidae (chuts)

Family -
Mythotheridae (jovigluts) Sub======Family -====== Porcotherinae (Whiskerpicks) Sub======Family -====== Jaydohtherinae (quilltails)

Family -
Scutocastoridae (tamows)

Family -
Phascosoricidae (Leemalla)

Family -
Soricidae (neoshrew)(superfamily if Dorite’s shrews get passed, maybe even higher)

Order -
Vampiritheria (Blood-shrews; protomammal grade to the more crown-mammal like Soriciformes)

Family -
Nyctocheilidae (Creepers and Gliders)

Family -
Physallidermatidae (Bubbleskins, literally “bubble-skins”)

Family -
Soriparasitidae (Soriparasites)

Family -
Vampiridae (Basal vampiritheres)

Order -
Prosubigosauriformes

Order -
Capuiformes Super======Family -====== (mirageboks/capoos) Super======Family -====== Capirioidea

Family -
Eucapiridae (basal capiris)

Family -
Lophocapiridae (capisails, capicrests, various marine capiris) (several subfamilies)

Family -
Phantasmatheridae (Wraith Capiri etc.)

Order -
Tripodisauriformes (Roamers)

Family -
Proboscisauridae (Probiscisaurus)

Family -
Acrotheridae (Forest Roamer)

Family -
Camporopisidae (Savannah Roamer and Nomad)

Order -
Onychosauriformes Super======Family -====== Unguicornoidea (antlerclaws) Sub=====Order -===== Ungulures Super======Family -====== Xatatheroidea (Glasseaters, Xatas)

Family
- (stem-xatatheres)

Family
- Hyalophagidae (glasseaters) Sub======Family -====== Plumosobovinae (feathered glasseaters)

Family
- Xatatheridae (xatas) Sub======Family -====== Ballistiphantinae (xatashots; name is a portmanteau, with hopefully a smooth transitioning of vowels. Literally “slingshot-elephants”, referencing the basal representative’s ability to shoot pinprong spikes like a bullet) Sub======Family -====== Cinguladorsinae (xatazelles, “belt-backs”) Sub======Family -====== Xatatherinae

Family -
Kentauropodidae (grubnubs)

Family -
Monunguidae (tailhoppers)

Family -
Binfordsauridae (basal ungulures) Clade - Floiodanchomaria (sawgnaws, shoveltails) Sub=====Order -===== (dwellers)

Family -
Scansinychidae (arboreal dwellers)

Family -
Fistulonaridae (snorkelcrests)

Order -
Azelachiformes (azelaks)

Family -
Azelemuridae (Azelemurs)

Family -
Megalachidae (wooly azelak and descendants)

Family -
Lanaraptoridae (azeraptors)

Family -
Euazelachidae (basal azelaks)

Class
- Saganisauria Subclass - Metasauria Clade - Podometasauria (snappers)

Order -
Tectoptera (skysnappers)

Family -
Passerisauridae (later skysnappers)

Order -
Dorsaurosauria (earbacks)

Family -
Anoptidae (crown earbacks)

Family -
Actinosauridae (stem-earbacks)

Order -
Eusaganichelonii (basal turtsnappers)

Order -
Fluniformes (flunes)

Family -
Eufluninae (basal flunes)

Family -
Theroflunidae (flunejaws)

Family -
Bufoflunidae (toadtugas)

Order -
Teguloterguformes (tile+thornbacks) Sub=====Order -===== Acanthomoi (thornbacks, “thorned-shoulders”) Sub=====Order -===== Stegocorni Sub=====Order -===== Stegolacertae (lizard-like tilebacks, probably polyphyletic)

Order -
Refulgisauria (glowsnappers+yellowfeens)

Family -
Neoluceremundaridae (yellowfeens, chromocanths - including the cave volox would make this taxon polyphyletic)

Family -
(cave volox)

Family -
Pharocaudidae (signaltails, literally “lighthouse-tails”)

Family -
Nautichelonidae (hullbacks)

Family -
Pseudosauropodidae (sailshells, sailmails)

Family -
Tronasauridae (Glowoggs)

Family -
Nitercanthidae (Glowspikes) (several more families and possibly subfamilies) Clade - Sublabromotus

Order -
Saganophidia (limblesses+seaswimmers) Super======Family -====== Teratophoidea (stem-limblesses, i.e. everything not descended from the rainforest limbless) Super======Family -====== Eusaganophidioidea (True limblesses) * ======Family -====== Paratedjavidae (descendants of the Squat Limbless other than the Wadjet and descendants) ======Family====== - Tedjavidae (Wadjet and (at the moment presumed) descendants) ======Family====== - Gyrinophidae (Serpmanders and allies)

Family
- Loricacollidae

Family
- Ouranomatidae (Skywatchers) Super======Family -====== Ophanguilloidea (seaswimmers)

Family
- Jasconidae
 * (are any more Ophanguilloid families needed?)

Order -
Eudigitogradia (wadjetsaurs, attercops etc.)

Family -
Brachiophidae (“armed” wadjetsaurs inc. deflatersaur) Family Arachnochelidae (attercops)

Order -
Sledobelonia (sledos)

Phylum
- Marephantasmozoa (The closest equivalent clade on an alternate Sagan 4 would be the Carpolantia, which is represented by similarly molluscan and cnidarian-like fauna, although very few possess actual tentacles.)

Class
- Tentaculata

Order -
Prototentaculata (basal filtersquids)

Family -
Teratophantasmidae (midnight filtersquids, literally “monster-ghosts”)

Order -
Trichoramaformes (bristlesquids)

Family -
Trepaniteuthidae

Order -
Krakeniformes (“higher” carposquids) Super======Family -====== Dixonipodoidea (land carposquids, etymology references Dougal Dixon, one of the main people who conceptualized The Future is Wild, infamous for its implausible speculations of terrestrial cephalopoda)

Family -
Frigiherpetidae (teuthopin and descendants, literally “cold-crawlers”)

Family -
Acroherpetidae (ovimari and cousins, literally “raised-crawlers”)

Family -
Eukrakenidae (giant carposquids) Super======Family -====== Hydronektoidea (hydrogen squids)

Family -
Vesicornithidae (skyskimmers)

Family -
Plotornithidae (hydroskimmers)

Phylum
- Protocarpozoa

Class
- Huggkruomorpha

Order
- Carpotestae

Order
- Protoluceremundariformes

Kingdom
- Krakowozoa

Phylum
- Krakowlimia (shrubites) Phylum - Pentaflagellata

Kingdom
- Melanophyta Division - Nigricaulids (sporestalks) Class - Labiafloropsida (crown-sporestalks) Many subclades (finish later) Class - Salinifloropsida (stem-sporestalks) Division - Obsidasterae (starflora) Division - Argentophyta (droopgea) Class - Argentofuscids

Order -
Puterlibetales

Order -
Plotorhizales (bubble droopgea)

Family -
Haplobullaceae Sub======Family -====== Epilophoideae (crowned droopgea)

Family -
Diplobullaceae Division - Algaaquilids (black algae)

Kingdom
- Magneferrubiota (i feel siderozoa is still a good name, as “sidero-” refers to rust, and basal representatives metabolize iron oxides. Perhaps we can reach a compromise? “Siderobiota?”)

Phylum
- Ferrovermes Class - Oplismovermidia Subclass - Brachiovermes (fessurums)

Order -
Leptobrachia (descendants of the grasping fessurum - crown group)

Order -
Brevibrachia (stem-fessurums) Subclass - (descendants of the aquatic plateworm) Super=====Order -===== Ferratimorpha (crusher worms)

Order -
Sanguicimeciformes (gusherworms) (polyphyletic???)

Family -
Xenoculicidae (gushstriders)

Order -
Annulaplacacea (rustlings, “ring-plates”)

Family -
Talpacephidae (tunneling rustlings, “mole-head”)

Order -
Petrostracaformes (tetsudos) Family Litupetridae (crawling tetsudo) Family Auripodidae (walking tetsudos)

Order -
Ferratiformes (basal crusher-worms) Super=====Order -===== Tegovermimorpha (basal plateworms)

Order -
Ferrohirudinea (suckiron and descendants)

Order -
Unguigradea (basal plateworms)

Family -
Malleafronsidae (magnethead)

Class - Oropedia

Order -
Gelupiscatoriformes (ice-angler oropede)

Order -
Anoculoformes (eyeless oropedes) Class - Pentopthalamidia (opabirons) Class - Vorticastomidia (ferrumvac)

Phylum
- Ferromycetes Class - Sideroradiciopsida (rooted ironflora) Subclass - Sentidae (irontangles and voltflora) Super=====Order -===== Solerucanae (voltflora) Super=====Order -===== Textomorphanae (other irontangles and allies)

Order -
Siderotextales (ironwebs)

Order -
Reticulales (ironetworks) Subclass - Ferropomatidae (ironcrops)

Order -
Magnoflorales (magnoflora) Subclass - Ferrogramenidae (ironweeds)

Order -
Ferropumpkinales (ironkin)

Order -
Ferrosphaerales (ironbuds) Phylum - (colony cells) Phylum - (iron forts)

Kingdom
- Cilliognathiazoa

Phylum
- Cilliognathata

Phylum
- (rorms+arrowheads)

Class
- Salinascolicia (rorms)

Order -
Fossiformes (burrarorms and close kin)

Order -
Proscoliciformes (basal rorms)

Order -
Cnidoscoliciformes (spinderorms)

Order -
Branchioscoliformes (gillrorms)

Order -
Hortavermiformes (pukais)

Family -
Melligastridae (honeypots)

Family -
Trematostomidae (basal pukais)

Family -
Protohortavermidae (stem-pukais)

Class
- Doryucephalia (arrowheads)

Order -
Ammocheliformes (muckrakers, literally “sand-claws”)

Order -
Gelisagittaformes (necarrows, literally “cold-arrows”)

Kingdom
- Kyanozoa Subkingdom - Silexivoridia (silex praevius and Cryoflows) Does silex belong here? I suppose this presents a similar dilemna as the binucleozoa, in which two independent lineages of microbe become a single lineage of endosymbionts, but since the binucleids are a single clade, i suppose we could keep the sileces here Subkingdom - Cryophyta Division - Kyanophyta (Kyanoses) Division - Hyalophyta (literally “glass-plants”) Class - Vitricaulae (cryostalks) Class - Rotosporae (cryodomes)

Order -
Concavales (cryobowls)

Family -
Aestolaboceae (glasstowers and glassleaves)

Family -
Scaphiumestuceae (true cryobowls)

Order -
Crepitoconvecales (explosive cryodomes)

Order -
Eucryotholales (basal cryodomes)

Family -
Conservatoriceae (greenhouse domes)

Kingdom
- Trinucleata
 * Clade - Hexanucleata

Phylum
- Masonipeda Class - Comodentia (feeders) Class - Repensia (crawlers)

Order -
(provuci)

Order -
(leteti)

Order -
(stisnite)

Order -
(jedec)

Order -
(teci) Class - Xepetogomaea (darters) Class - Trepanomorpha (diggers) Class - Xaphryzoria (skimmers) Phylum - (mason trisphorus)

Phylum
- Ostracogenata Class - Pluribiotae

Order -
Rojiformes

Family -
Efferidae

Family -
Symplacidae (fused-shell and gömböc roj)

Order -
Transostracaformes

Family -
Terraphagidae (dirteaters) Phylum - Myxoformazoa (oozes)

Kingdom
- Flaviphyta Class - Masonicaulopsida Class - Annulopsida Division - Twinkiirontia (twinkiiros)
 * Division - Masoniphyta (Mason flora)

Kingdom
- Viridisagania Subkingdom - Luminiphilia (luminuseven+redmosses) Division - Rhodobryopsida Class - Osteophycae (literally “bone-seaweeds”)

Order -
Osteostipales (boneflora crown-group) Class - Rubiphytae

Order -
Rubiphytales

Order -
Aurantiphytales Subkingdom - Asterophyta (are these crastrums?) yes Division - Asterfolia-𝛂? (probably too obtuse. Any less contrived alternatives?) Subkingdom - Chlorocytobiota (Chlorocytuses) Division - Euglenamimia

=Superkingdom= - Mesosaganizoa

Kingdom
- Gastroboskia (foi)(Proper foi would not evolve on an alternate Sagan 4, but remarkably similar lifeforms would arise from a kingdom of lithotrophic microbes, feeding on deposits of manganese and other metallic oxides, as well as organic detritus, though future descendants would parasitically feed on iron-rich blood. These analogue “foi” are also verifiably polynucleate, whereas with this universe’s foi, we can only assume.) Phylum - Haplogastrizoa (basal foi) Class - Endomyzontia (sucker foi) Class - Extoileisizoa (basal foi) Phylum - Myriagastrizoa (charybdis foi, foi made of multiple monomer units) Class - Charybdiazoa

Kingdom
- Reniformabiota Phylum - Renizoa Class - Reniformae

Order -
Bliniforma

Order -
Pseudoanthozoa

Family -
Thylacopolypidae

Family -
Polypifloridae

Order -
Curallia

Family -
Siderogastridae

Order -
Eureniformae.

Family -
Phoenokarpatidae

Kingdom
- Cytovirii (Eukaryaviruses, penitoflora coli descendants??)

Kingdom
- Vulcanizoa Phylum - Metathermizoa (multicellular vulcanizoa) Class - Kerychida (keryhs) Phylum - Hydrothermizoa (hydrothermus)

Kingdom
- Sagamoebae Phylum - Saganichaotia (we really need some testate-amoeba like ones don’t we?) Phylum - Goliathpseudopodia (These would become a fairly successful clade of unicellular “animals” in another timeline - especially a clade of huge microbes, cells reaching the centimeters in sheer size, and reinforced with testae of detritus both organic and inorganic - but in Sagan 4 Alpha, this entire clade was swiftly made extinct in the End-Huggian coronal mass ejection) Phylum - Infinitabiota (infinituses) Clade (Superphylum?) - Cuniculamoebida (lithamoeba, Methanophagus)??? Yes or no? Maybe?though things like goliath and chaos are predatory cells, while the lithamoebas are pretty dissimilar in behavior, metabolizing/oxidizing inorganic material

Kingdom
- Refulgibiota (flash cells and flashkelps)

Kingdom
- Teproutinia Kingdom - Microdendrontia Division - Megadendrontiphyta Class - Megadendrontopsida

Order -
Megadendrontales

=Superkingdom= - Protosaganizoa Kingdom - Flovaniozoa (flovars) Kingdom - (solumcrusta)

Kingdom
- Crustasimilis (morsuses)

Kingdom
- Ceratozoa (prongangels) Clade - Endoturbaria (microplaque) Clade - Erythrobacillales (majurums and rustcells) Clade - Mainovisiceae Clade - (kelpegs+kelpoggles) Clade - Microprobii (yanimalus probisucker, sudisflutanses) Clade - Basiliphyta (Brown Basiliphyta) Clade - Halophagia (salmundus) Clade - Remizoa (padlers) Clade - Caudazoa (beadlines, flickers, irisiri) Clade - Incredundobiota (Radiodurans Maximae and Hydrogen Burner)
 * Clade - Octothermazoa (octhermas, placoballs)

Glossary for potential revised names: Ankistron - Ancient Greek: fishhook Enteron - Ancient Greek: earthworm Dytes - Ancient Greek: diver Clypeus - Latin: round shield Desmos - Ancient Greek: bundle Machaira - Ancient Greek: dagger Gonia - Ancient Greek: angled Strongylos - Ancient Greek: rounded