Talk:Eocene
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Nothing links here. Will Pliocene, Oligocene etc all be moved to Pliocene Epoch etc.? Will all the redirects be cleaned up? Wetman 23:42, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- (William M. Connolley 21:13, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)) Don't understand. Lots of things link here.
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[edit] marsupials
"Early forms of many other modern mammalian orders appeared, including bats, proboscidians, primates, rodents and marsupials." - haven't marsupials been a separate group since the Cretaceous?
[edit] mesonychids
Whales have been thought to be descended from ancestral artiodactyls, not mesonychids, since about 2001 (Gingerich). I'd have to look up the referen
[edit] crocdile
Deinosuchus died out before the Eocene.
[edit] The Grande Coupure
A plain reference seemed likely to mystify the reader. I've made it into a subsection. The Grande Coupure is currently being placed in the earliest Oligocene, however. Perhaps someone better informed than I will look over my edits and decide where the section really belongs.--Wetman 05:56, 12 November 2006 (UTC)--Wetman 05:56, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] responce to crocodile
sience dinosucus died out before the eocene i am going to erase the part about dinosucucus. Crocadog 21:58, 1 December 2006 (UTC)CROCADOG
[edit] AMK152's Geotimeboxes
AMK152 proposed in edits of 27 December 2006 a geotimebox for this article as follows:
| Eon: | Proterozoic • Phanerozoic • [[]] |
| Era: | Mesozoic • Cenozoic • [[]] |
| Period: | Cretaceous • Paleogene • Neogene |
| Epoch: | Paleocene • Eocene • Oligocene |
I feel that the box information that is appropriate for the article is already in the footer, and that other extraneous information, such as previous eons, can be supplied where important, by links from the text. I removed the geotimebox and left the footer, pending discussion. --Bejnar 02:11, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Misleading" tag
To clarify: The current description of the initiation of global cooling is ambiguous and doesn't make clear the effects of the Azolla event and antarctic currents - it could be read to imply that the one caused the other. Verisimilus T 19:44, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
