Three truths
- Timed
- Branched off about 110 million years ago · the last 2.6% of life's story
- Named
- ≈24,000 named living species · 1.4% of all named
- Weighed
- Part of Plants (mostly land plants) (≈450 Gt C), not measured separately.
Eukaryotes · plants and algae
Mints, olives and snapdragons
Living · roughly 24,000 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 110 million years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- Asterids
Classification
- First common ancestor (LUCA)
- › Archaea
- › Asgard archaea
- › Heimdall and complex-cell line
- › Complex cells (eukaryotes)
- › Diaphoretickes
- › Algae and plants
- › Green plants
- › Streptophytes
- › Land plants
- › Vascular plants
- › Euphyllophytes
- › Seed plants
- › Flowering plants
- › Core flowering plants
- › Eudicots
- › Asterids
- › Mints, olives and snapdragons
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