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)
[edit] Writing Is Too Exclusive: Needs to Include Terms Understandable to the Average Non-Scientist Reader
Wikipedia is not a science journal. It is a public-use encyclopedia and cryptic scientific terminology should always be accompanied by a clearly understandable lay-explanation. For example, the opening of the article does not explain how long ago the Eocene occurred in terms that the average reader could readily understand. This not only violates the stated Wikipedia mission but is also a rude and snobbish approach to writing in this context (fine for science journals but inappropriate and inconsiderate when taking into account the fact that the average Wikipedia reader is not a scientist).
In summary, advanced science terminology is acceptable in Wikipeda, but should always be accompanied by easily understood lay-explanations targeted to the average public reader. Sean7phil (talk) 17:46, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
- Ma is linked, I added a parenthetical note. Thanks for toning it down at the end, but please be more courteous in the future. Awickert (talk) 17:56, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
[edit] time
Time notation is inconsistent with notation for other epochs. For instance, Pleistocene epoch lists "X years before present" (which is intuitive). This, "lasting from 55.8 ± 0.2 to 33.9 ± 0.1 Ma (million years ago)" is relatively complicated. Perhaps unnecessarily so? Also, some articles use "mya" to abbreviate "millions of years". Which is correct? 64.53.222.219 (talk) 09:17, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
- Seems the dates could be generalized first without the ± range, then in parens include the more specific - from about 56 to 34 Ma (55.8 ± 0.2 to 33.9 ± 0.1 Ma) maybe? I see Paleocene uses the error range, but Oligocene doesn't. As to Ma vs mya, seems that Ma is preferred (based on some geochron organization "decree") though both are used. Agree that consistency would be nice :) Vsmith (talk) 13:42, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
[edit] External links
I removed some broken links. And I removed another link to a work of fiction; it wasn't that interesting, and we prefer non-fiction on this page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.9.112.31 (talk) 02:19, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Methane
I would like to see more details about methane and water vapor. -- Brothernight (talk) 12:42, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
