Three truths
- Timed
- Branched off about 1.6 billion years ago · the last 38% of life's story
- Named
- ≈200 named living species · 0.01% of all named
- Weighed
- Not measured (no figure in Bar-On et al. 2018).
Eukaryotes · single-celled groups
Cryptophytes
Living · roughly 200 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 1.6 billion years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- Diaphoretickes
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