Talk:Silurian

Quotes
Who removed the quotes? -- Darth Batrus 12:21, 09 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I did. Quotes are against the manual of style. -<Azes13 15:35, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Images
Not sure if this is helpful but found this picture whilst reading some extracts from Scales of Injustice and wondered if it might be something to add to the article. Anyway, here it is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/ebooks/scalesofinjustice/images/800/ep3.html Darth Batrus 18:46, November 22, 2009 (UTC)

Appearences
It says that they are appearing in the pandorica opens and the big bang, does anyone know that for sure? ~ BillyWilliam3rd

300Mya
In The Hungry Earth, at 33:37, the Doctor says, "You're 300 million years outside your comfort zone."

300Mya is around the start of the Permian period (Cisuralian age, Asselian epoch, to be specific). It was during this era that the proto-reptiles split into two lines--pelycosaurs and sauropsids. The pelycosaurs were the ancestors of therapsids (mammal-like reptiles), mammals, and other synapsids. The sauropsids were the ancestors of the birds, most familiar dinosaurs, and modern reptiles.

Anyway, pelycosaurs are clearly still reptilian, and probably cold-blooded, but much more mammal-like in other ways than the sauropsids. And they ruled the planet for most of the next 50M years (until the P-Tr extinction wiped most of them out and the sauropsids took over, until the K-T extinction, aka the Adric extinction, 185 million years later, when synapsids took back over, in the form of mammals).

So, the Silurians could be early pelycosaurs, who evolved around 300Mya. Or they could be Carboniferous-era early reptiles who went into hibernation at the start of the Permian, maybe with different groups of them awakening at various different times in the future as a means of escaping the multiple extinction events.

I don't know if this helps the dating issue or just adds more controversy. If these are very early Silurians, that would explain the lack of the third eye and psychic powers.

Anyway, I'm not sure how to fit all this information into the article, but I'll add the basic 300Mya mention. --Falcotron 05:00, May 23, 2010 (UTC)