Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
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'''Mikko's Phylogeny Archive''' is an amateur paleontology website maintained by Mikko Haaramo, a student at the [[University of Helsinki]]'s Department of Geology, Division of Geology and Palaeontology. <ref name="mikko">Haaramo, M. (2007). ''[[Mikko's Phylogeny Archive]]''. Accessed 4-OCT-2007. http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/</ref>
The entire website is essentially one enormous [[cladogram]] (phylogenetic tree), based on material from many different sources, and consisting of thousands of linked phylogenetic trees. Each page presents a cladogram that is [[hyperlink]]ed to its parent and daughter cladograms, plus a section for references. Taxa of uncertain relationship are indicated by a question mark. No indication is given for what part of the cladogram is based on which specific references.
The site was originally simply named "Life as We Know It", and with the [[Dinosauricon]] it was the first web-site to use an [[ascii]] text-based format for showing cladograms.
Although the Archive has been hosted by the [[Finnish Museum of the Natural History]] and now the [[University of Helsinki]]'s servers, the museum has no formal affiliation with it. Haaramo points out that the site is a private project, is not peer-reviewed, and should not be used as a scientific reference.
As of 11 May, 2006, Mikko's Phylogeny Archive contains nearly 4,600 pages, most of them cladograms or taxonomic listings. Together with the [[Palaeos]] and [[Paleobiology Database]] websites it is currently the only website to provide a near comprehensive listing of many groups, genera and species of extinct organisms, along with recent taxa.
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/ Mikko's Phylogeny Archive]
[[Category:Paleontology websites]]