Talk:General Biology/Classification of Living Things/Eukaryotes/Animals/Chordates

Page http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chordates_(General_Biology) needs complete revision as it has many defects ranging from spelling errors (e.g. "natho-stomes") to serious misclassifications (e.g. entries for "synapsid" and "pelycosaur" under "diapsid"!).

Some other suggestions:
 * It's difficult to squeeze the whole of chordate or vertebrate phylogeny into 1 page. It might be best to adopt the compact style used by e.g. Palaeos (http://www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/Lists/Cladograms/100Summary.html), an dmake the names in the tree link to descriptions either further down the page (need to be brief) or in other pages.
 * Deciding the structure of the page(s) about chordates (or any other high-level taxon) needs centralised editorial control in order to make sure the structure is coherent, e.g. whether to have descriptions in the same page as the outline phylogenetic tree or on separate pages or both.
 * High-level phylogeny pages must acknowledge that some areas of the tree are under debate and therefore fluid, e.g. synapsids, whether monotremes are actually in the same "branch" as marsupials and placentals, early hominid evolution.