Template:Did you know nominations/Paleoflora of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 01:30, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

Paleoflora of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands

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Macginitiea gracilis leaf fossil

• ... that the Paleoflora of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands (fossil pictured) has been referred to as "Eocene Orchards"? Source: Wehr & hopkins 1994, DeVore & Pigg 2007
  • ALT1: ... that the Paleoflora of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands are mostly compression floras (fossil pictured), but chert, coal, and amber are also present? Source: Pigg & DeVore 2016, Archibald et al. 2018
  • ALT2: ... that the Paleoflora of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands (fossil pictured) has a noted mixture of both temperate and tropical plants? Source: West et al., 2020
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Waukesha Biota

Moved to mainspace by Kevmin (talk). Self-nominated at 17:06, 10 October 2022 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Kevmin: Great article. Im going to assume good faith on the offline sources and approve the nomination. Onegreatjoke (talk) 13:26, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

• @Kevmin: I was going to promote ALT2, but I couldn't find a citation for the notion that the mixture of plants is "noted" – could you point me in the right direction? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 23:12, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

• Per West et al. (2020) Okanagan Highlands floras are broadly similar in floristic composition, comprised of a high diversity of plant genera typical of modern temperate deciduous and subtropical evergreen forests (DeVore and Pigg, 2010; Smith et al., 2012; Gushulak et al., 2016; Lowe et al., 2018).--Kevmin § 15:20, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

• Then how about:

ALT2a: ... that the Paleoflora of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands (fossil pictured) has a noted mixture of both temperate and subtropical plants?

since that's what the reference actually says? -- RoySmith (talk) 14:18, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

• Yes, that is what I should have written initially for the hook, I didn't catch that I had dropped the sub from subtropical when I wrote out the nomination. My apologies--Kevmin § 14:36, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

• Onegreatjoke can you approve ALT2a? -- RoySmith (talk) 16:24, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

@RoySmith: sorry for not approving earlier. Onegreatjoke (talk) 16:30, 9 November 2022 (UTC)