Visualize Organisms who’ve been sequenced

I was looking at this story http://www.yourgenome.org/facts/timeline-organisms-that-have-had-their-genomes-sequenced and I was disappointed that there wasn’t a nice visualization. I think a simple start would be to make a nice timeline. Here is a nice timeline, but I don’t think it totally fits the use case.

A more sophisticated attempt would be to integrate the timeline with phylogenetic tree, and even better, utilize genomic similarity to understand “coverage” by each of these attempts.

Here is the great phylo tree by Bostock: https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/c034d66572fd6bd6815a