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Proposed merge with Paleobiota of the Portland formation

I completely agree with the proposal. The paleobiota of the formation is not particularly unusual or renowned in paleontological circles, consisting of a typical Newark Supergroup assemblage of conifers, horsetails, cycadeoids, bivalves, crustaceans, insects, bony fish, and tetrapods primarily represented by tracks. Furthermore, I am reasonably certain that User:Yewtharaptor is the same as 212.170.92.39 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 212.170.92.41 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 212.170.92.62 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), and occasionally 85.91.95.244 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), and was registered to make edits anonymous IP editors are not permitted to make, such as creating articles. The individual behind the IPS has a tedious history of populating Late Triassic and Early Jurassic formations with a biota seemingly drawn at random, and occasionally creating hoax articles on talk pages. J. Spencer (talk) 22:35, 17 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think that is all the votes we need to go through with the merger. I'm going to write Yewtharaptor a mergenote. Judging from his edit count is still learning about Wikipedia dos and donts. --Tobias1984 (talk) 08:18, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support merger. No justification for spin-offs of this short article. Abyssal (talk) 09:32, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Portland Group?

A 2016 paper elevated it to a group.[1] It also suggests that name should replace Agawam Group. What should we do? FunkMonk (talk) 01:47, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

To make this even more confusing, there is also a British Portland Group (geology)... FunkMonk (talk) 19:02, 18 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I was reading about the issue on (what I believe is) your blog[2], J. Spencer, which is also how the 2016 paper came to my attention. Do you have any suggestions as to what to do with this? FunkMonk (talk) 19:05, 18 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

My personal preference when a major reorganization is proposed is to see if it is picked up by other authorities before making major changes (e.g., conversion of the Moenkopi and Chinle from formations to groups, which hasn't caught on). The drawback is it can take time for a consensus to develop. This does not preclude mentioning the proposal, though. J. Spencer (talk) 15:21, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, probably too early to rename. But I'll try to drop a mention of the proposal. FunkMonk (talk) 18:23, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Podokesaurus discovered in Massachusetts not Connecticut

See Podokesaurus wiki page. Found in Holyoke, Massachusetts. 64.223.108.140 (talk) 13:18, 16 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Accidentally deleted Podokesaurus section and adding links won’t work.

I was trying to contribute to the page by adding some notes onto Anchisaurus' section of thenpage however I believe something bugged or wasn't working correctly and the whole section to Podokesaurus and the Dinosaurs section as a whole got messed up. I have no idea how to fix this issue so help would be highly appreciated. Ambystoma Neptunus (talk) 04:02, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, it's fixed - you just missed a ref tag that then messed up the formatting going forward. Jessicapierce (talk) 04:30, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]