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Three truths

Timed
Began about 130 million years ago · the last 3.1% of life's story
Named
≈43,000 named living species · 2.5% of all named
Weighed
Part of Plants (mostly land plants) (≈450 Gt C), not measured separately.

Eukaryotes · plants and algae

Monocots

Living · roughly 43,000 described species

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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

Child lineages

Classification

  1. First common ancestor (LUCA)
  2. › Archaea
  3. › Asgard archaea
  4. › Heimdall and complex-cell line
  5. › Complex cells (eukaryotes)
  6. › Diaphoretickes
  7. › Algae and plants
  8. › Green plants
  9. › Streptophytes
  10. › Land plants
  11. › Vascular plants
  12. › Euphyllophytes
  13. › Seed plants
  14. › Flowering plants
  15. › Core flowering plants
  16. › Monocots

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