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Is there anyone who can make it so that all pages about a period in geological time have the same start and end dates mentioned on their articles as those mentioned on the article for the Gelologic Time scale?? 66.32.113.158 21:22, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Is this all the link a reader will be offered to Early Jurassic Middle Jurassic or Late Jurassic? Won't there be a brief precis of the spin-off "main" article, so that this trunk article isn't cannibalized? This one should read as complete; the others give more detailed coverage. I can't help because I don't see what the coming structure will be. --Wetman 13:39, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I expect eventually all these pages will have more detailed information. When I have more time (whenever that will be...!) i'll try to fill out some of these timeline pages a bit more M Alan Kazlev 07:24, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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I think someone added the note about birds evolving without paying attention to the rest of the paragraph, so that the comment about saurischian branch does not apply to the bird sentence, but the sentence before it? Someone knowledgable please investigate.

"During the late Jurassic the first birds evolved from small coelurosaur dinosaurs. All these belong to the "lizard hipped" or saurischian branch of the dinosaurs." --Chinasaur 22:34, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Palms are flowering plants 2 Early/Lower, Late/Upper 3 AMK152's Geotimeboxes 4 Obscenity used 5 The suck 6 Let's add a map of the world from this period

[edit] Palms are flowering plants

Flowering plants had not evolved yet, but conifers were common, and in fact were the most diverse group of trees, as were palms Kazlev (2002). Palms are monocots. --Arkuat 10:01, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing this, Kazlev. --Arkuat 08:09, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Early/Lower, Late/Upper

I've been changing these terms to proper usage on this and various pages -- Early and Late are used as time terms, such as "during the Late Jurassic Period", while Upper and Lower refer to the rocks, as in "the Lower Jurassic sandstones of the Jura Mountains". Also, any of these terms are properly capitalized if the division is formal, as is the case with Jurassic; but as an example "early Miocene" would not be capitalized because there is no formal subdivision called "Early Miocene." --Geologyguy 02:44, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AMK152's Geotimeboxes

AMK152 proposed in edits of 27 December 2006 a geotimebox for this article. I feel that the box information that is appropriate for the article is already contained in the footer, and that other information can be supplied where important, by links from the text. See discussion at Template talk:Geotimebox. --Bejnar 20:30, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Obscenity used

Some idiots have defaced the content. Any experts in this area, please remove those irrelevant sentences. Thanks! Is there any report mechanism on Wiki for such incidents? 139.168.208.189 12:45, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the message about this. Normally such vandalisms are reverted within a few minutes by one of the dozens or hundreds of editors watching this page, but this time took rather longer. You can remove such material yourself - just click the "edit this page" tab at the top. Thanks again Geologyguy 13:23, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The suck

This article is the suck. Please expand, Mr. Paleontologist!

[edit] Let's add a map of the world from this period

Yeah The Person Who Is Strange 01:03, 29 August 2007 (UTC)