Three truths
- Timed
- Branched off about 900 million years ago · the last 21% of life's story
- Named
- ≈4,000 named living species · 0.2% of all named
- Weighed
- Not measured (no figure in Bar-On et al. 2018).
Eukaryotes · plants and algae
Stoneworts and kin
Living · roughly 4,000 described species
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 900 million years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- Streptophytes
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