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Tubulina or Tubulinea?

Hi Christopher

I'm not sure if it should be Tubulina or Tubulinea. The Wikipedia page has Tubulinea. I am in no way an expert on this, so I trust your judgement and knowledge re the correct and taxon name--M alan kazlev 16:25, 1 October 2006 (PDT)

I believe I've also seen both, but not having the appropriate references onhand, I can't recall why I used Tubulina, or even if I had a proper reason - Tubulina may have simply been the name used in the most recent reference I checked.
In regards to the phylogeny pages, again I'm adding them away from home, which is why I'm generally simply loading bare phylogenies without background info. I may fill in some gaps once I'm home and have the papers back onhand - or I may simply rely on the kindness of strangers in that regard. A few whacking great caveats: some of my phylogenies are pretty idiosyncratic (I generally use the most recent or the one with the most complete taxon coverage - which may not necessarily be the best), and I give a kind of consensus tree showing a single version rather than separate trees for separate topologies as Mikko Haaramo does. I have known cases where my attempts to reconcile completely opposing topologies has resulted in something that no-one would ever consider. I've also willfully misused names (see Exoflagellata and Variosea for two cases where a taxon as originally defined has turned out to be paraphyletic and I've broadened the name to include all daughter taxa as well, probably destroying the author's original intention) and sometimes twisted a phylogeny shown in the source paper to allow certain taxa (families, genera, etc.) to appear monophyletic when I felt that their para-/polyphyly was not sufficiently proven. General summation - don't believe a word I say.--Christopher
Having relooked at Smirnov et al., Tubulina is an older name that was more or less equivalent to Tubulinea. I'm not a fan of name-changes to give all taxa at a single "rank" the same ending, or other such changes for the sake of form, which was why I'd intially retained Tubulina. I've given in to the majority since, to use Tubulinea.--Christopher Taylor 08:49, 5 April 2007 (Perth)

Some Requests

You don't happen to have the dendrograms for Cervidae, Cheiruidae/Deiphon, Petalocrinus, or Crotalocrinus?--Stanton 21:20, 27 November 2006 (PST)

Cervidae and subsidiary pages are now up--Christopher Taylor 19:56, 6 December 2006 (Perth)
Better pages up for Petalocrinus and Crotalocrinites (yep, that's the correct name - Crotalocrinus is a nomen vanum)--Christopher Taylor 21:25, 7 January 2007 (Perth)
I could have sworn that stupid book said -crinus and not -crinites--Stanton 12:57, 7 January 2007 (PST)
According to Lane (1978) in the Treatise, early workers on crinoids often coined named ending in -crinites, the suffix -ites indicating a fossil. In 1836, Louis Agassiz emended all names ending in -crinites to -crinus. Almost all authors followed Agassiz' lead until the correct original spellings were restored from 1938 onwards.--Christopher Taylor 22:28, 14 January 2007 (Perth)
Also, got any information on Mene?--Stanton 23:08, 16 February 2007 (PST)
Yes, it's the first two words in "Mene mene tekel upharsin". I'll see what I can find. Those giraffoid pages are coming, it's just taking me a while to work through Maglio & Cooke (1978 - Evolution of African Mammals)--Christopher Taylor 21:20, 17 February 2007 (Perth)
Sorry, I meant the type genus of the family Menidae.--Stanton 13:39, 17 February 2007 (PST)
I know you did. My reply was what one calls "being facetious"--Christopher Taylor 08:23, 18 February 2007 (Perth)
Finally got the Menidae up there. Mene maculata is the living species, by the way--Christopher Taylor 14:51, 27 May 2007 (Perth)

Dendrogram

Hi christopher How do you load dendrograms?--Fang 23 20:26, 24 March 2007 (PDT)

I write them in. I've got a Word document that I simply cut and paste from, then edit for format. The info in the Word document I enter from references by hand.--Christopher Taylor 11:44, 25 March 2007 (Perth)

Alveolata

Hi Christopher

In order to have all the material about Alveolata on the same page (makes it less confusing), I've merged the Alveolata references (with a redirect from the old page) and simplified the template. But I'm not sure what to do with Alveolata phylogeny, because there seem to be some minor differences between the dendrograms on the two pages. Anyway I'll leave it with you; if you want to keep the two versions, or delete or redirect the Alveolata phylogeny page. M alan kazlev 18:58, 2 August 2007 (PDT)

Sorted. Christopher Taylor 11:16, 3 August 2007 (Perth)

Compliment :)

Nothing constructive, I just wanted to say that you're doing an amazing job as literally the only contributor in the last month or more. My hat is off to you! User:Paul 4 March 2008.

And here I was considering quitting because I seemed to be the last to leave a sinking ship. Maybe I'll keep going a little longer.Christopher 14:11, 4 March 2008 (PST)

linguistic support

Hi Christopher, it seems you are currently the only person adding new material to paleos.org. I'm from Germany an not that familiar with English language, so would you be so kind, if not too busy, to check the language in my recent additions? Feel free to make edits concerning grammar and/or orthography. I'm often not sure about the correct phrasing.

Thanks, --Zidane 08:43, 21 May 2008 (PDT)

I'd be glad to help. Thanks a lot for all your additions.Christopher 17:59, 21 May 2008 (PDT)

My contributions

I’ve written about Darwin, about Origin of Species etc. Please tell me if that is what you want here. I think it’s good to have a bit of history. It looks so silly that 21st century creationists are redoing arguments that were settled in the 19th Century. Readers should know. Proxima Centauri 03:27, 27 July 2008 (PDT)

It looks good to me - we need more of the general background theory and history. Thanks for all your work!Christopher 03:32, 27 July 2008 (PDT)

Is this computer slow

Is it? Proxima Centauri 05:49, 14 October 2008 (PDT)

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