Talk:Male Ginkgo

Um, why has the origin of this Flower been changed from Pleistocene to Jurassic? It seems mildly pointless and only leaves us open for a wrangle about the specific identity of fossil Ginkgo material from the Mesozoic versus the Cenozoic and the Evolutionary Species Concept. If you have a reason, please let me know and we can talk about it. Otherwise, can we change it back? While I'm aware that the Jurassic material is morphologically very similar to Recent G. biloba, the intervening millions of years (the base of the Pleistocene is 1.8mya, whereas the base of the Jurassic is 199mya) would seem to make it unlikely at best that, if we had living examples of plants from both times, they would be considered identical by a taxonomist.

Clearly, it's not *really* that important, in the grand scheme of things, but the point is that changing from one mildly arbitrary but reasonably logical time period to another also arbitrary but less logical time period with NO reason and NO explanation is ... both irritating and petty. So. Can I have an explanation, please? Agenttrojie 22:43, 21 May 2009 (UTC)