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== Help fixing text ==

As part of project punctuation we found the following sentence in this article that lacks an ending period. I can't make sense of this sentence, though, particularly the combination of parentheses and em dashes. The 'while' at the beginning seems unresolved. Can someone who understands the subject fix it, perhaps by breaking it into several simpler sentences? Brighterorange 16:57, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It seems likely then that while there was some sort of end Carnian extinction (several [[herbivorous]] archosauromorph groups died out at this time, while the large herbivorous [[therapsid]]s - the [[Kannemeyeridae |Kannemeyerid]] [[dicynodont]]s and the [[Traversodontidae|Traversodont]] [[cynodont]]s - were much reduced, at least in the northern half of Pangaea ([[Laurasia]]))

Has my edit improved clarity? --Wetman 18:46, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

1 Box
2 Late Triassic extinction event
3 Plagerism??
4 triassic creatures
5 Is this serious?

[edit] Box

In the box, is this sequence instinctive? Doesn't it read as though Cretaceous came first? it certainly would in any human history box. Do people see that the stratigraphic sequence is being represented?Wetman 05:17, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

by convention, geological history is read from the bottom up (geological column). Yeah i know it's counter-intuitive, but the only other option is to read it from left to right M Alan Kazlev 15:00, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Help is needed in restoring vandalized text. --Wetman 18:58, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Late Triassic extinction event

Robert Carroll's Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution indicates that Plesiosauria survived the Late Triassic extinction event.

yes, plesiosaurs were rare in the Triassic, but became common during the Jurassic M Alan Kazlev 15:00, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Plagerism??

I see some large parts of this article are exact copies from http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/mesozoic/triassic/ being a n00b to Wikipedia, what do I do about this? Edit it?05:56, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Hello and thanks for the concern. I see a fair number of phrases that seem to come from that site, but on the whole they seem to me to have been re-cast adequately, but we should do what you have done - raise the question here and see what others think. At a minimum, it looks to me as if whoever wrote those sections should have listed the site you mention as a reference. Can you quote some of the large parts you see? Cheers Geologyguy 13:42, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] triassic creatures

nothosaurus placodonts plesiosaurus thalattosauria askeptosaurus icthyosaurus capitosaurus plagiosaurus metoposaurus lissamphibia temnospondyls —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.125.111.237 (talk) 01:23, 1 February 2007 (UTC).