Three truths
- Timed
- Branched off about 8 million years ago · the last 0.2% of life's story
- Named
- No living species
- Weighed
- Extinct: no biomass today.
Eukaryotes · animals
Mammoths
Extinct · died out about 4 thousand years ago, end of the Quaternary
A full profile for this group has not been written yet. Its place in the tree and its dates are shown below.
The last ones lived on an Arctic island until about 4,000 years ago.
- Branched off
- About 8 million years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- Elephant family
Classification
- First common ancestor (LUCA)
- › Archaea
- › Asgard archaea
- › Heimdall and complex-cell line
- › Complex cells (eukaryotes)
- › Amorphea
- › Opisthokonts
- › Holozoa
- › Animals
- › Parahoxozoa
- › Bilaterians
- › Deuterostomes
- › Chordates
- › Vertebrates
- › Jawed vertebrates
- › Bony vertebrates
- › Lobe-finned vertebrates
- › Four-limbed vertebrates
- › Amniotes
- › Synapsids
- › Therapsids
- › Mammals
- › Live-bearing mammals
- › Placental mammals
- › Afrotherians
- › Elephant family
- › Mammoths
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