Three truths
- Timed
- Branched off about 2.9 billion years ago · the last 69% of life's story
- Named
- ≈100 named living species · 0.006% of all named
- Weighed
- Part of Archaea (≈7 Gt C), not measured separately.
Archaea · phylum
Thermoproteota (Crenarchaeota)
Thermoproteota
Living · roughly 100 described species
A phylum of archaea long called Crenarchaeota, including many species from hot, acidic springs. It belongs to the TACK group, close to the Asgard archaea.
Key characteristics
- Many love heat and acid
- Part of the TACK superphylum
- Some live in cooler oceans and soils
- Habitat
- Hot springs, volcanic soils and oceans
- Branched off
- About 2.9 billion years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- TACK archaea
Classification
Sources
- Thermoproteota (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia
- TimeTree: the timescale of life · TimeTree
- Open Tree of Life · Open Tree of Life
- Tree of Life Web Project · Tree of Life Web Project