Talk:Polar forests of the Cretaceous

Ecoregions and Time
I was considering whether it was sensible to try and add Template:Infobox_ecoregion or something similar to this article, and then it occurred to me that 'ecoregions' will have changed over geological time due to plate tectonics so listing them by 'country' is probably not going to make much sense, so perhaps latitude and longitude and extent make more sense? Perhaps listing the countries that those land masses now lie in might be interesting too ? I guess that would need a new template. EdwardLane (talk) 10:09, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Eocene polar forests
There were also polar forests in the Eocene, possibly constantly since the Cretaceous. Wouldn't it makes more sense to rename this article to Polar forests, and have sections for each era?

Also, the introduction line "During the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution, conifers, cycads and ferns were selectively replaced by angiosperms and gymnosperms" is contradictory, as conifers are gymnosperms. Fig (talk) 22:44, 22 October 2013 (UTC)


 * sounds reasonable to me, holocene seems likely to the best described. EdwardLane (talk) 11:25, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Clarification needed
So the higher (temperate) latitudes were really more productive than the lower (tropical) ones? That's not a mistake? The statement is unexpected and counterintuitive, as in our own period the warmer tropical latitudes are in general the most productive regions, but the text fails to acknowledge that.

Also, how did the plants cope with five months of darkness? That sounds like a pretty extreme condition. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 20:47, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Requested move 20 September 2023

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (non-admin closure) - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 12:24, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

Polar forests of the Cretaceous → Polar forest – This has always seemed like a somewhat nebulous topic and article title. There is no doubt in my mind that the topic of "polar forest" is probably notable, but it seems strange to confine coverage of the topic solely to the Cretaceous period, when polars forests have existed for large streches of earth's history both before and after the Cretaceous. I intend to heavily rewrite the article if the move request goes through. Hemiauchenia (talk) 20:35, 20 September 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. Adumbrativus (talk) 08:39, 8 October 2023 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Strong oppose Instead create a new article on polar forest in general, and leave this one focused on what it is now, -- 67.70.25.175 (talk) 06:00, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose As the IP said, a new all-encompassing article should be created instead of modifying the scope of this one. This one can be merged into it later if necessary. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 09:02, 8 October 2023 (UTC)