Talk:Miocene

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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%.

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

1. Aquitanian 2. Burdigalian 3. Langhian 4. Serravallian 5. Tortonian 6. Messinian 7. Large Fat Women eat cakes —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.164.236.119 (talk) 17:40, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

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)

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"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)

AMK152's Geotimeboxes
AMK152 proposed in edits of 27 December 2006 a geotimebox for this article as follows:

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)

North American orogeny
The article states that mountain building was occurring in western North America. I'm not aware of a major orogenic phase during the Miocene. Volcanoes in the Cascades continue to erupt to this day, but the Laramide orogeny largely ended in the Eocene, and that was pretty much the last one. - Parsa (talk) 23:40, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Sarmatian
Hi, could someone please write a stub on Sarmatian or at least mention it in the article? The oldest known seahorse species (Hippocampus sarmaticus and Hippocampus slovenicus) date to Sarmatian. --Eleassar my talk 13:48, 17 November 2010 (UTC)


 * The Sarmatian is part of the Paratethys sequence, and is not a global stratigraphic term according to the ICS, the boundaries are not defined precisely, making Paratethys stratigraphic terms difficult to use. We should probably have a record of this somewhere, possibly as part of the Paratethys article. Mikenorton (talk) 15:39, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

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Climate
Citation is needed for information about ice sheets in Greenland 7-8 Ma. This article may provide some help, but I don't know enough about paleoclimatology to understand it. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.09.019 Ikjbagl (talk) 11:36, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

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Ma
I'm at a loss to understand why - following a recent revert of my fix - the unexplained abbreviation "Ma" is used in this article, or why it is linked, via a redirect, to "Year". Nor why it is is deemed preferable to use that unexplained abbreviation in every table row rather than once in a table header cell. Nor can I see why my use of the term "Millions of years" as a more comprehensible alternative was deemed inappropriate. Perhaps someone can explain to me how the current version is thought easier for the readers of a general encyclopedia to understand, and more accessible? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:32, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
 * The opening sentence of the article is {{tQ|The Miocene ( /ˈmaɪəˌsiːn, ˈmaɪoʊ-/ MY-ə-seen, MY-oh-[6][7]) is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about 23.03 to 5.333 million years ago (Ma). (emphasis mine). This makes the use of Ma in the chronobox clear and concise as a summation of the article.  Additionally the link to year has been clarified by updating Template:Infobox geologic timespan to link to Year. The info box is not the place to make the clarifications.-- Kev  min  § 18:32, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I referred (as I should have made more clear) to use in the tables, where the abbreviation is not defined and is linked as I described. I note also that the definition you cite in the lede, is unlinked. My edit did not touch the infobox. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:16, 15 April 2022 (UTC)