Talk:List of prehistoric bony fish genera

Prehistoric?

I don't understand why the word "prehistoric" is in the title. I'm sure that all species of fish date from prehistoric times. Steve Dufour (talk) 07:09, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

While most higher level taxons (orders, superfamilies) of fish have fossil record very few genera have fossil records and very very very few if any species have fossil records. This is a list of fish genera known only from fossils. --Kevmin (talk) 07:47, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. Steve Dufour (talk) 16:35, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Getting back. I was a little confused since where I live, California, prehistoric times went up to about 250 years ago since the native people were not keeping written records. Steve Dufour (talk) 21:21, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

I've raised similar concerns at Talk:List_of_prehistoric_cartilaginous_fish#Article_should_be_moved. I think a more accurate title for these articles would be desirable. -- Yzx (talk) 01:00, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Links to non topic articles

The following links on the page link to pages not related to fish genera. I'd fix this but not sure the best way except for creating the target entries. Zanclus, Umbra, Triodon, Solea, Roncador, Nansenia, Echeneis, Chanda, Brama. Cordyceps (talk) 03:43, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Hopefully I have sorted these with links at least to living species. I let an expert build on it!

Someone had beaten me to two of them, thanks. I haven't checked the other 1,380!!!John M Brear (talk) 20:36, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Structure - alphabetic or taxonomic?

I know, you will all love me for this ;)

I came here in order to identify a fossil I have recently bought. It has no ID or location or... but it is beautiful! Whilst this list is excellent and comprehensive, it might be much more useful if it were structured according to higher taxa. That way someone with my object in view could eliminate possibilities en masse, rather than individually. The present alphabetic order by genus is fine if you know what you are looking for.

A table with columns for each taxonomic level would probably be the best presentation.

I recognize it would be a huge task, even for someone with expert knowledge of the field. An amateur like me would have to follow each link to determine order, family etc. The page Lists of prehistoric fish and its sub-pages do this in part, but link back here for several of the sublists. Between them and this we have the base for something really good.

What do other editors think? .John M Brear (talk) 20:55, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

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