Three truths
- Timed
- Branched off about 460 million years ago · the last 11% of life's story
- Named
- ≈1,200 named living species · 0.07% of all named
- Weighed
- Part of Fish (≈0.7 Gt C), not measured separately.
Eukaryotes · animals
Sharks and rays
Living · roughly 1,200 described species
A full profile for this group has not been written yet. Its place in the tree and its dates are shown below.
Sharks are older than trees.
- Branched off
- About 460 million years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- Jawed vertebrates
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