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THE FOLLOWING TEMPLATE AND DOCUMENTATION WERE TAKEN FROM EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

Usage:

{{fossil range|first appearance (required)|last appearance|text to display|earliest=earliest putative fossil|latest=latest putative fossil|ref=References|PS=anything to display after the range}}

Italic parameters are optional, bold required.

incertae sedis

Genus : Rangea
Species : Rangea examplus

Palaeontologia

359–100 m.a.: Carboniferum > Cretaceum inferius

Original instructions copied from en:wiki

Illustrates the fossil range of a taxon. Intended for use in Formula:Tnes.

You can give a numeric range, or specify the periods involved. The range will be quoted in text before the timeline, unless you specify a third parameter - leaving it blank will result in no text being provided.

To illustrate the range when it spans before the Ediacaran (i.e. deep into the precambrian), you should use Template:Long fossil range, which works in exactly the same way as documented here.

You can also specify "earliest" and "latest" to add a "ghost" bar beyond the accepted fossil range. You can use these parameters for whatever you like; they may be useful in the case of living fossils such as the coelocanth, where you may wish to specify latest=0 to make the bar faintly extend to the present; they may also be useful where "earliest" fossils are not universally accepted - for instance, the octocorals only have a good fossil record from the Tertiary, but there are claims of Cambrian representatives. In this case, you may wish to specify earliest=middle Cambrian.

Latest advice for Vicipaedia

The best way to use this formula is to specify a date range and also the first and last geological periods/epochs. If this is done, all the information will appear clearly both in text form and in the timeline diagram. The Latin or English formula name will work:

{{Scala fossilis

{{Fossil range

First add the date range in millions of years. For a living taxon, the second number will be 0:

{{Scala fossilis|299|201

{{Scala fossilis|20|0

The formula can be closed here. If it is, the screen rendering will show the date range on the timeline and in text form:

{{Scala fossilis|299|201}}

But it is better also to add the geological periods (the first and last, or the only one). The parameter including this information must always be labelled "|r=". Our equivalent of the conventional term "recent" is "Recens", which is currently redirected to Holocaenum. Thus:

{{Scala fossilis|299|201|r=[[Permium]] > [[Triassicum]]}}

{{Scala fossilis|20|0|r=[[Miocaenum]] > [[Recens]]}}

Everything that follows the r= is treated as text, and it can include a footnote. Here are examples of the formula as rendered:

Examples 1-3

{{Scala fossilis|299|201|r=[[Permium]] > [[Triassicum]]}}

299–201 m.a.: Permium > Triassicum

{{Scala fossilis|201|0|r=[[Iurassicum]] inferius > [[Recens]]}}

201–0 m.a.: Iurassicum inferius > Recens

{{Scala fossilis|100|66|r=[[Cretaceum]] superius<ref>R. Smith, ''Dead Animals'' (2015) p. 55</ref>}}

100–66 m.a.: Cretaceum superius^[1]

↑ R. Smith, Dead Animals (2015) p. 55

Assets

[1] R. Smith, Dead Animals (2015) p. 55

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