Three truths
- Timed
- Began about 640 million years ago · the last 15% of life's story
- Named
- ≈140,000 named living species · 8.2% of all named
- Weighed
- Part of Fungi (≈12 Gt C), not measured separately.
Eukaryotes · fungi
Dikarya
Living · roughly 140,000 described species
The date or placement of this group is still debated.
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 900 million years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- Fungi
Child lineages
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