Three truths
- Timed
- Began about 3.2 billion years ago · the last 76% of life's story
- Named
- ≈9,200 named living species · 0.5% of all named
- Weighed
- Part of Bacteria (≈70 Gt C), not measured separately.
Bacteria
Gracilicutes
Living · roughly 9,200 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 3.6 billion years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- Bacteria
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