Three truths
- Timed
- Began about 1.0 billion years ago · the last 24% of life's story
- Named
- ≈16,000 named living species · 0.9% of all named
- Weighed
- Not measured (no figure in Bar-On et al. 2018).
Eukaryotes · single-celled groups
Alveolates
Living · roughly 16,000 described species
The date or placement of this group is still debated.
A full profile for this group has not been written yet. Its place in the tree and its dates are shown below.
- Branched off
- About 1.4 billion years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- SAR supergroup
Child lineages
Classification
Sources
- TimeTree: the timescale of life · TimeTree
- Open Tree of Life · Open Tree of Life
- Tree of Life Web Project · Tree of Life Web Project