Three truths
- Timed
- Began about 580 million years ago · the last 14% of life's story
- Named
- ≈1.1 million named living species · 63% of all named
- Weighed
- At least ≈1 Gt C · 0.2% or more of all life's carbon
- Part of All other animals (total minus the parts above) (≈0.13 Gt C), not measured separately.
Eukaryotes · animals
Moulting animals
Living · roughly 1.1 million 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 600 million years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- Protostomes
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