Welcome to Mikko's Phylogeny Archive. This is my private archive of various phylogenetic trees. Although many groups of modern organisms are already taxonomically or descriptionally well treated in the Web, there are still some gaping holes left, especially when treating extinct organisms. This site aims to fill some of those holes. In current form [2009-12-11] it holds nearly 5,100 pages, most of them cladograms (phylogenetic trees) or taxonomic listings. More...

Last update 2009-12-13.

During the move of Archive away from the Finnish Museum of Natural History server I made a promise to do more frequent updates. Despite my best hopes expressed during the lauch of the Archive in new location, I was unable to do more updates during 2008 and 2009. Although I have been working towards a more steady state of updates, my hopes has been mashed by such trivial and mundane things as day job and lack of free time. Poor Archive has suffered due this lack of commitment to it for over 1½ years. I can only hope that during 2010 I'll have more free time and energy in my hands to do more frequent updates. I'm still planning to reform Archive as a proper database-based, actively updated resource. I have already had some discussions with a Ph.D. student, who is more familiar with MySQL and PhP-programming than myself, of this project. Unfortunately he too is occupied with some much more important things.

So, I think that this net-cartoon by a fellow IT-worker and web-author, Mike Keesey, sums things up nicely!

Parry & Carney (2007-005-15) © T. Michael Keesey, 2007, used with permission
Cheers, Mike! Apparently this happens even to the worst of us!

 

Trees

Additional information

Main groups of organisms

 

Quick links:

Taksonomiaan perusteet
FT Jyrki Muonan erinomainen johdatus taksonomian, systematiikan ja fylogenian perusteisiin Luonnontieteellisen keskusmuseon sivuilla.

 

Phylogenetics
Explanation of phylogenetic systematics in the Wikipedia – The Free Encyclopedia.

 

Ecologically important(?) meteor craters
– These craters are selected, because the impacts that created them, have presumably had important ecological effects, both locally and globally.

 

Geological timetables
– One of the key elements in understanding of the phylogeny and evolution of organisms, is the understanding their age and longevity. [Finnish version / suomenkielinen]

 

Recent updates:

Taxonomic links

 

Miscellaneous information:

 

Disclaimer:

Please, don't use this page as a scientific reference. This site is not peer-reviewed, and any alleged information contained herein may in fact represent whim, caprice, bias, speculation, ignorance, or simply typographical error, rather than science. [Thanks to Toby White (Palaeos -site) for a nice phrase.]