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This template needs an overhaul. It screws up any article that uses by making the article too wide. I'm deleting it from the articles I watch until it gets fixed. OrangeMarlin Talk• Contributions 19:08, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Problems exist. On low res screen there is some severe text overlap of Aptian and Middle Miocene events as well as Paleo/Neogene bar. In addition the Paleozoic color bar ends within the Triassic and the Mesozoic in late Paleogene. I use Opera browser at low resolution (800x600) for visibility and my poor eyes. Vsmith 01:44, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
<RI>I'm back to having concerns over the template. On Safari and Firefox (at least on a Mac), the events are not lining up to the actually event boundaries. On Firefox, it's off, but almost useable. On Safari, the K-T event appears to happen in the Neogene. I've tried it with different resolutions, and I can't get rid of the problem. OrangeMarlin Talk• Contributions 06:34, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
I usually try to keep the templates collapsible, but when I do it with this one it messes up the graphic (I use Firefox). Unfortunately, I am not skilled enough with the graphics to fix it myself. I am making this request and leaving it entirely up to you if you want to fix it or not - if you do fix it, please update the template; if you don't, I won't bother you about it. Here it what I was trying to do:
{{include timeline}}|extinction events
Howzat?
The navigation boxes centre text by default - I simply overruled that!
Verisimilus T 19:07, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
For me, using IE, at a screen resolution of 1280x1024, the "0" which is supposed to be at the right-hand end of the template appears on the left, beneath the "-600", and the text "Middle Miocene disruption" overwrites itself. But in Firefox, the template displays correctly. Does anyone else see the same thing, or is it just me? DH85868993 (talk) 16:14, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
copied from User talk:Smith609
Hi Verisimilus, I was looking at the above template and wondering whether there was a good reason for starting the timeline at the Ediacaran? There are a number of known extinction events predating it - see Cryogenian, Huronian, Snowball Earth etc. These all led to large-scale extinctions, albeit of primitive life-forms - see Abiogenesis. What are your thoughts? ciao Rotational (talk) 06:30, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
Exact times are always a problem when dealing with events that occurred a few billion years back, as are fossil records indicating scale and significance. Consequently the Butterfield statement that "ecosystems were stable" and that the system was not prone to large extinctions, is wildly speculative. ciao Rotational (talk) 04:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Butterfield seems to be oblivious of the notion that a cataclysmic extinction event can come wrapped up as the onset of a stable environment, ending the careers of some portions of the biotic spectrum while affording exciting new niches for others - "One man's meat is another man's poison". Rotational (talk) 06:12, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
Graphs show hat it actually started, at least for marine animals, already from end of Middle Permian. --Artman40 (talk) 15:05, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
An IP editor has been removing this from the list, claiming that it is a 'sub-minor' extinction. This doesn't match my recollection, and one source at least considers it a 'mass extinction' (DOI:10.1126/science.1059342). Before you remove it again, please provide a link to a reliable source on this page that agrees with your perception of the magnitude of the extinction. Thanks, Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 19:09, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum was a fairly large benthic extinction event. IMHO, it should be included. 130.39.188.148 (talk) 23:57, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
The period and era timelines are out of sync with eachother and the extinction event markers are out of place. Abyssal (talk) 02:11, 6 September 2011 (UTC)