Three truths
- Timed
- Branched off about 2.6 billion years ago · the last 62% of life's story
- Named
- ≈800 named living species · 0.05% of all named
- Weighed
- Part of Bacteria (≈70 Gt C), not measured separately.
Bacteria
Myxobacteria and kin
Living · roughly 800 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 2.6 billion years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- Pseudomonadota (Proteobacteria)
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