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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)
"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?
Whales have been thought to be descended from ancestral artiodactyls, not mesonychids, since about 2001 (Gingerich). I'd have to look up the referen
Deinosuchus died out before the Eocene.
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)
sience dinosucus died out before the eocene i am going to erase the part about dinosucucus. Crocadog 21:58, 1 December 2006 (UTC)CROCADOG
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
I would like to see more details about methane and water vapor. -- Brothernight ( talk) 12:42, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
According to the lead,
The taxobox for Proboscidea dates the order to the Paleocene. Were early proboscideans not modern mammals? What makes a mammal modern? There is a similar statement in the Paleocene article. Peter Brown ( talk) 00:22, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
"temperature emission" is regarding the physics nonsense, I'll change that part a little -- 2A02:8108:86C0:553:B099:9E0A:4539:1428 ( talk) 08:59, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
When I think about it, the higher effect of methane should be neglectible anyway on a geological scale, as atmospheric methane decomposes into CO2 in mere decades. On a geological scale it's only important if there is a very constant source of methane; but then, its effect is much greater than 23-fold (because 23-fold is for a one-time-release averaged from the time of release until 100 years later, most of which time it is already CO2!). -- 2A02:8108:86C0:553:B099:9E0A:4539:1428 ( talk) 09:06, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
At any given time, methane's effect is 171-fold compared to CO2 on the radiative balance (compare article "methane as a GHG") -- 2A02:8108:86C0:553:B099:9E0A:4539:1428 ( talk) 09:17, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
Is this header a typo or a new term I am not familiar with? I feel it should be Paleogeography Phillip Sand Hansel II
A few things that need to be improved on in these sections - a) More-less unreferenced; has some, but mostly devoid of such, and second (And far more important.)b) IT'S DAMN SHORT. This hardly does justice to Eocene fauna and fauna - Seriously, this could be an article at least this long on it's own! 142.176.114.76 ( talk) 00:48, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
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After pointing out that methane decomposes into CO(2), the article says "Water vapor traps more infrared than does carbon dioxide." Given that new water vapor immediately enters the self-limiting hydrological cycle, whose residence time is on the order of ten days, how is this relevant to temperature change? Vaughan Pratt ( talk) 04:45, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
The final sentence of the 'Etymology' section suggests that the reinstatement of the Quaternary as a period 'may lead to the reinstatement of the Tertiary in the future'. Of course, its reinstatement is always possible but seems unlikely; the paper used as a reference here recommends against it. It seems to me that the lay reader of this article may take away the idea that such a reversion is more on the cards than perhaps it is. Geopersona ( talk) 07:25, 13 May 2022 (UTC)