Talk:neogaean

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neogaean

This should be uppercase Neogaean. Sure, we could just move it, but there might be a lowercase form too Creeps like you (talk) 12:17, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

I wonder if this is an obsolete synonym of Neotropical, rather than a wider region as implied by our definition. Though it's possible Webster got this one right and Encyclopedia Britannica got it wrong, since one would think a word that literally means "new world" might correspond to the whole New World and not just the southern half of it ... I dont know. A good find, as always. —Soap— 15:16, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Cited in lower case, changed from "zoology" to just "biology" since two of the cites are about plants. Two of the citations at least are definitely referring to the New World as a whole (and the 1866 one predates the proposal of the Neogaean realm, apparently in 1892); I suspect the restricted sense relating to the Neogaean realm will pretty much always be capitalised. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 23:10, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

• RFV passed Denazz (talk) 14:08, 19 December 2023 (UTC)