Three truths
- Timed
- Began about 8 million years ago · the last 0.2% of life's story
- Named
- ≈3 named living species · under 0.001% of all named
- Weighed
- Part of Livestock and wild mammals (≈0.11 Gt C), not measured separately.
Eukaryotes · animals
Elephant family
Living · roughly 3 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 80 million years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- Afrotherians
Child lineages
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
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