Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Unikonta |
| system | Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith, 1987 |
| kingdom | Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals |
| subregnum | Eumetazoa Butschli, 1910 |
| divisio | Bilateria Hatschek, 1888 - bilaterians |
| subdivisio | Deuterostomia - deuterostomes |
| phylum | Chordata Bateson, 1885 - chordates |
| subphylum | Vertebrata Cuvier, 1812 - vertebrates |
| Vertebrata incertae sedis | |
| order | Myllokunmingiida † |
| family | Myllokunmingiidae † |
| genus | Myllokunmingia Shu, Zhang, J. Han, 1999 † |