Three truths
- Timed
- Branched off about 700 million years ago · the last 17% of life's story
- Named
- ≈11,000 named living species · 0.6% of all named
- Weighed
- Part of All other animals (total minus the parts above) (≈0.13 Gt C), not measured separately.
Eukaryotes · animals
Jellyfish and corals
Living · roughly 11,000 described species
A full profile for this group has not been written yet. Its place in the tree and its dates are shown below.
Jellyfish, corals and sea anemones, all armed with stinging cells.
- Branched off
- About 700 million years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- Parahoxozoa
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