Three truths
- Timed
- Branched off about 160 million years ago · the last 3.8% of life's story
- Named
- ≈10,000 named living species · 0.6% of all named
- Weighed
- Part of Plants (mostly land plants) (≈450 Gt C), not measured separately.
Eukaryotes · plants and algae
Magnolias, laurels and pepper
Living · roughly 10,000 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 160 million years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- Core flowering plants
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
- › Magnolias, laurels and pepper
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