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[edit] What lagerstätten are
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)
[edit] Taxonomic names
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)
[edit] Merge tag
I have tagged Mazon Creek Fossil Beds for merging into this article as they are covering the same topic.--Kevmin (talk) 15:49, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
- Should probably be the other way around, merge the fossil article in the lagerstätten article. We typically have lagerstätten articles first (see also List of fossil sites) and do biota articles second, when the biota are not limited to a single lagerstätte and very important (see e.g. Jehol Biota).
- Other than that - Support. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 02:33, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
- Support merger in the direction suggested by Dysmorodrepanis. Deor (talk) 12:21, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
