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The Megacladogram; A cladogram of everything
Topic Started: Sep 28 2015, 11:09 AM (747 Views)
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A little thing I've been working on over the last two months...

Warning: HUGE image. I really mean it.


It's a cladogram that connectes 400 living species from all domains and kingdoms over geological time. This is the original description on the DeviantArt page:

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This picture shows the evolutionary relationships of 400 living species spanning the whole tree of life, from cyanobacteria to whales, from mushrooms to parrots, from blennies to millipedes. Everthing is up-to-date at the best of my abilities (it turned out that the classification of squamates and birds was completely reshuffled over the last year, which forced me to redraw a big part of the Megacladogram). The distinctive traits of many groups are given as well.
The coloured wheels represent geological eras and periods: from the center, Archaean (pink), Proterozoic (orange), Cambrian (greenish), Ordovician (teal), Silurian (pale green), Devonian (brown), Carboniferous (greyish), Permian (red), Triassic (purple), Jurassic (blue), Cretaceous (green), Palaeogene (orange) and Neogene (yellow). They're all in scale with each other, representing their duration, except for Archaean and Proterozoic. A more detailed chronology, and completely in scale, is given in the top left of the image. The wheel in the top right shows the relative number of species in different groups.

I tried to use consistently the most recent sources. The position of turtles is based on recent studies that place them outside Anapsida and within Archosauromorpha (Crawford et al., 2014). Similarly, the marsupial mole is placed outside true Marsupialia as surviving Dryolestoidea, a branch of mammals until now believed to be extinct (Agnolin and Chimento, 2015). The phylogeny of Pancrustacea, one of the most controversial parts of this cladogram, is based on Regier et al., 2010. The new phylogenies of Squamata and Neoaves are based respectively on Reeder et al., 2015, and Jarvis et al., 2014.
Quotes around a taxon name indicate paraphyletic groups, that is, groups that don't include all of the descendants of their common ancestor. For example, "Rotifera" should include Acanthocephala, "Mecoptera" should include Siphonaptera, "Blattodea" should include Isoptera, and so on.
The phylogeny of bacteria is based on Cavalier-Smith, 2006. I realize that, because of the heavy use of horizontal gene transfer, the idea of an unambiguous cladogram for prokaryotes is not very realistic; it's there mostly for the sake of completeness.
The phylogeny of plants contains some informal groups (eudicots, commelinids, asterids, etc.), used in the APG classification, which I adapted to the usual naming conventions (Eudicotiledonae, Commelinida, Asterida).


I admit it's a bit unwieldy, and early drafts were even worse, aven after I decided to remove extinct species. What do the experts of taxonomy say? Is it accurate? Is the species number graph? Is there something missing?
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I must say I'm impressed. It is one of the most up-to-date modern species based cladograms I've ever seen.
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Good think I saw your thread about marsupial moles not being marsupials before having to redraw half of the mammal tree...
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SpecEvo Tutorials: Habitable Solar Systems (galaxies, stars and moons); Planets (geology, oceans and atmosphere); Ecology (energy, biomes and relationships); Alternative Biochemistry (basic elements, solvents, pigments); Biomechanics (body structure, skeletons, locomotion); Bioenergetics (photosynthesis, digestion, respiration); Perception (sense organs and nervous system); Reproduction (from genetics to childbirth); Offense and Defense (camouflage, poisons and weapons); Intelligence (EQ, consciousness and smartest animals); Civilizations (technology, domestication and culture); Exotic Life (living crystals, nuclear life, 2D biology); Evolution (genetics, selection and speed); Phylogeny (trees of life); Guide to Naming (how to name your creations) (and more!)

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Natural History of Horus (19th century naturalists... in space)
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Indeed.

In relation to actual marsupials, I do think that the cladogram could have Paucituberculata and Peremelomorphia in it, but it's probably crowded as it is.
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I know this is old, but aren't mesozoans proven to be lophotrochozoa?
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But uh, I'm pretty sure the placement of mesozoans isn't known for sure beyond being eumetazoans.
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