User talk:Furasta

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Ammonites
I appreciate your interest in the Ammonites original research project. It may seem novel in focusing on both ammonoids and ammonites and by its layout and apparent tentativeness but that is by design. I realize the resource that you read may not agree with what you know. Please feel free to create another resource along the lines of what you know if you wish to. Wikiversity is not Wikipedia and there isn't a right or wrong Ammonites entry. For now I have rolled back your contributions. But they are still in the resource history for anyone to consider including me.

The paleontology resource is a general description of the subject and there is also the department of paleontology where subdivisions may be useful as well. The references do not need to be changed to a different format. The definitions are formal using wiktionary, a sister project, which we are encouraged to use. I have not rolled back your contributions. There is no particular right or wrong in presenting plant fossils before animals or vertebrates or vice versa which you changed it to.

We also have "Discuss" pages which you are free to use for suggesting changes. One of the easiest ways we have to prevent edit wars is the freedom to create educational resources for as many points of view as there are contributors. Thank you again for your interest in both resources. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 02:48, 13 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi Marshall. I realize than Wikiversity is not Wikipedia, otherwise why the two, but new to Wikivesity have yet to learn its full ramifications.
 * It was my intent to improve the accuracy of the page for benefit of anyone looking at it, although I had thought of putting suggested corrections in discussion instead, which I still may do.
 * Now about ammonites. My interest here is within that of cephalopods but secondary to that of the nautiloids, which comprise a separate group (subclass). What is you interest regarding. Perhaps we can collaborate. No?

John


 * I've added some cited information to Theoretical ammonites clarifying what some may call an "ideal ammonite, or ammonoid". This may be a "theoretical ammonite". Usually, paleontologists have some kind of model in mind; hence, the section title.


 * Collaboration may be productive. My interest is from a genetics point of view. This is also why I've tried to stay a step away from strict formalism. I don't believe any DNA has been found from any ammonoid as yet, but I'm going to see how far I can go to simulate it. I've already included my first research hypothesis at the bottom of the Ammonites text. Ammonoids may have been a better page title, but we'll see.


 * FYI there's a small pen icon just above the editing window that we use to end comments. It gives your user name and a time stamp. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 16:34, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Wikispecies
In the course of editing the Ammonites resource I ran across some good images for two species: Leioceras opalinum and Psiloceras planorbis, which I contributed to another sister project called Wikispecies. Wikispecies user Stho002 was helpful in conforming these contributions in Wikispecies style. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 17:28, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Geochronology
Some of my interest in ammonites concerns the fact that many shelled cephalopods are used as index fossils. The second part of ammonites focuses on their use in geochronology. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 20:37, 15 April 2015 (UTC)