Talk:Mazon Creek fossil beds

message: The opening has been amended by someone to read "The Mazon Creek fossils are conservation lagerstätten". I 'm under the impression that a lagerstätte (singular) is the preserved environment itself, not the fossils that may be found in it. I hesitate to get into an encounter over it with an editor who seems so briskly confident.--Wetman (talk) 07:52, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: What lagerstätten are

message: Names of taxa are not capitalized in a sentence if they are informal (such as lycopsids) and genera are italicized (such as Lepidodendron).  Wikilinks should be preserved.Wilson44691 (talk) 03:11, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taxonomic names 

message: Centipedes of the Mazon Creek fossil beds is a small stub that would be better covered here with the other fossils, rather then as a stand an almost orphan.--Kevmin § 15:55, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: . --Stemonitis (talk) 15:05, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: Freshwater horseshoe crabs??? Seriously? David Marjanović (talk) 03:23, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: What specifically do you find to be an issue with the division of the faunas?--Kevmin § 03:40, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

text: It’s true, there were Xiphosurans present in freshwater environments in the Late Paleozoic and Mesozoic. --Gretarsson (talk) 22:59, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  On what basis are the faunas separated? 

message: In the introductory section it reads: „The fossil beds are located in ironstone concretions [...]“. Well I’m not a native speaker but AFAIK “bed” means the same as “layer” or “stratum”. So it sounds somewhat strange to me that there are beds being located in concretions, since AFAIK concretions occur within (preferredly mudstone) beds rather than the other way around. So it would probably more accurate to say: „The fossils occur [or are preserved] in ironstone concretions [...]“. --Gretarsson (talk) 22:59, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beds within concretions? 

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message: The article/redirect now points here ... where the centipedes have all been deleted ... "since all got articles": but how is the reader to reach them, if their names are not known to the reader already? Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:31, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: - shall we just revert this or have you an alternative proposal? Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:26, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I think all the taxa list for Mazon Creek would be needed instead. I felt strange that only centipede have suddenly listed in the page. But if needed probably fine to revert. Ta-tea-two-te-to (talk) 03:38, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, some sort of list would clearly make sense, but just destroying the small part that did exist seems like moving in the wrong direction. And, you haven't addressed my question, how the reader is supposed to reach the now completely unlinked centipede species articles? Chiswick Chap (talk) 04:41, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Ummmmmm that is what I am not sure as well. @Fossiladder13 tried to work on Mazon Creek taxa list, so perhaps that would help to link these centipede taxa. Anyway, if we're going to list centipedes, we'll eventually need a list of various groups like fish, insects, jellyfish, etc. (Edit: I added centipede taxa shortly in the page now) Ta-tea-two-te-to (talk) 05:53, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks, and I agree. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:07, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Centipedes of the Mazon Creek fossil beds]]