Talk:Prehistoric insects

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All insects are "prehistoric," so I'm confused. Is this about the development of the Insects? Is it about insect fossils? . Or is this a result of creationist home-schooling or smmething? --Wetman 23:56, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I've read that insects make up half the fossil record;

Piotr

"Prehistoric" means "before recorded history", but generally is used to refer to human development and archaeology pertaining to this time - e.g. Neolithic, Paleolithic, etc.

To say "Prehistoric Insect" means insects that lived during Neolithic, etc times (which were essentially modern species still alive today)

If you want to go further back in time, you would say "Cenozoic Insects", "Mesozoic insects" etc

Also, insects do not make up half the fossil record (although there may well have been millions of specis, but most didnt become fossils).

I would suggest that this article be renamed "fossil insects", and the wording modified accordingly. Some of the material on this page should be transferred to and merged with the main Insects page, & some new material should be written here on the fossilisation of insects.

M Alan Kazlev 05:42, 29 December 2005 (UTC)