Three truths
- Timed
- Branched off about 480 million years ago · the last 11% of life's story
- Named
- ≈6,000 named living species · 0.3% of all named
- Weighed
- Part of Arthropods (≈1 Gt C), not measured separately.
Eukaryotes · animals
Dragonflies
Living · roughly 6,000 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 480 million years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- Insects
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