Talk:List of prehistoric mammals

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[edit] This article needs attention desperately!

Few things that caught my attention:

• there are some clear errors, for example Litopterna is listed with horses.
• the grouping is odd, for example dogs and hyaenas are lumped together, chalicotheres are listed among tapirs and brontotheres...

Solution:

Let's make this page similar to the List of mammals page, with complete taxonomical classification (order/family/genus etc.).

--Jyril 10:20, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Another, possibly better way is to merge these lists, and mark extinct groups with a dagger (†). --Jyril 10:24, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

I would suggest keeping them separate and linking to this page on the List of mammals page. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-10-23 05:14

Let me add that some paleobiologists place oreodonts not in the pig-like suborder Suina, but rather in their own suborder, Oreodonta.

--Dr.Bastedo 18:06, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of prehistoric mammals

I just want to say that the whole point of a LIST OF PREHISTORIC MAMMALS is just that --- a list. I agree they're should be another page with the taxonomy and family trees, but when a person is looking for a certain species it is impossible to find something that is not in alphabetical order. I realize that the page was an incomplete project but feel it should be just like List of dinosaurs with another page created for family trees and the like. Astropithicus

I agree that this list is currently in terrible shape. But I disagree that the species should be sorted alphabetically; there are so many mammal species that alphabetically sorted list would become impractical (though, simple order/family/genus level should be enough). Note that the List of mammals is also sorted taxonomically. My main concern was that the original list had species listed in totally wrong places.--Jyril 18:30, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

We could always have List of prehistoric mammals in alphabetical order as opposed to the vanilla taxonomic list. Sure, there's duplication of effort but it may appease folks who prefer the format as per the dinosaur list. Personally, I prefer taxonomically ordered lists and feel that if you're looking by alpha order, that's what Control-F is for -- however, I'm willing to do the legwork on this. I should have a beta version on my userspace by tomorrow if you're interested. -- Miwa * talk * contribs ^_^ 02:13, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Maybe not tomorrow. This list is LONG. Miwa * talk * contribs ^_^ 04:34, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Links

Hi everyone, I think we can all agree that this page needs some considerable clean up and verification by an expert. However, can we verify the links? As in:

1. create stubs for extinct species to red links and put them into the list of requested articles?
2. check the links that are already there.
   1. some go to forward to animals that are not extinct
   2. some don't even to go to animals Handy Man forwards you to a song, not a life form.

Personally, if I'm in the extinct animal page, I want to be sent to a page with that particular sub-species, not a close relative. Please let me know if you have opposition to this or any suggestion where I can post this as a project. Thanks, Leah 15:17, 17 August 2006 (UTC)