Talk:Timeline of paleontology

Renaming suggestion
Rusty Cashman 02:42, 25 October 2006 (UTC)This appears to be a rather disjointed mess. Seems it should be moved/renamed Timeline of fossil finds as that is the theme of the post 1750s entries. The earlier entries seem largely related to meteorolgy/climate along with a couple of odd - out of place entrie (Francis Bacon??). It seems to have little relation to geography (other than weather and climate). If more dates from the field of paleontology (besides fossil finds) were included then it could be renamed/moved to Timeline of paleontology - in which case the continental drift, plate tectonics, dating method, and extinction entries would fit better. I propose a move is in order. Comments? -Vsmith 02:59, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

I agree this is a mess. The meteorology stuff should be stripped out and it should be called just time line of paleontology. A combined time line of GEOLOGY and paleontology might make sense but geography and paleontology does not.Rusty Cashman 02:42, 25 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Done the deed - removed climatology stuff. Vsmith 01:41, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

The Ghugua Fossil Park (1970)
This entry appears to be mostly filled with typos and unintelligible nonsense. Perhaps someone familiar with the subject can pull it together.&mdash;QuicksilverT @ 06:08, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

I don't see why this particular fossil park is especially more important than many other such parks around the world, perhaps I shoudl add Dinosaur Park in my own country, or several parks in the USA, established to preserve arguably equally important collections of paleontological specimens.

To be equitable, then the timeline of all government-supported paleontological preserves should be included. I think rather that establishment of parks or preserves not be included in this timeline. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.246.132.177 (talk) 16:16, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree and I no one posts a counter argument soon. I will delete the entry. Rusty Cashman (talk) 19:32, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Removed cleanup banner
This article still needs expansion and copy editing, but it has improved dramatically in the past few months. I don't think it merits the cleanup required banner anymore and so I am removing it. Rusty Cashman (talk) 18:32, 1 July 2012 (UTC)