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Actually, Lyell established the epoch names, such as Miocene, not on the basis of the mammalian faunas, but on the basis of the marine invertebrate fauna. The epochs were identified by the percentage of living molluscan species found in the rock units - the Miocene having 18%.

[edit] Faunal stages order

« The Miocene faunal stages from youngest to oldest are: »

  1. Aquitanian
  2. Burdigalian
  3. Langhian
  4. Serravallian
  5. Tortonian
  6. Messinian

look like reversed, perhaps I'm missing something ? phe 12:07, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Is there any rationale for putting the footer after the opening paragraphs, so that the article appears truncated? --Wetman 10:31, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

It makes navigation easier, you can navigate without having to scroll the whole page. If you don't like it, be free to move it to the bottom of the article.--Jyril 18:33, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "23 to 5.3 million years before the present." ==

Who will monitor this page in order to keep this date current?

.--[[User:WunHungLow] 23:35, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

No worries, it only needs to be changed once every 100.000 years. Iblardi 16:07, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[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:	Paleogene • Neogene • [[]]
Epoch:	Oligocene • Miocene • Pliocene

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 01:59, 28 December 2006 (UTC)