Three truths
- Timed
- Branched off about 420 million years ago · the last 10% of life's story
- Named
- ≈2 named living species · under 0.001% of all named
- Weighed
- Part of Fish (≈0.7 Gt C), not measured separately.
Eukaryotes · animals
Coelacanths
Living · roughly 2 described species
A full profile for this group has not been written yet. Its place in the tree and its dates are shown below.
Thought extinct for 66 million years until one was caught in 1938.
- Branched off
- About 420 million years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- Lobe-finned vertebrates
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