Paleonet: New Epoch name convention?

[Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.]

I don’t see how they could argue for the use of lowercase, as the modifiers are all in uppercase on http://stratigraphy.org/ICSchart/ChronostratChart2015-01.jpg (not only in the chart, but in the text in the lower right corner).

 

And keep in mind: Lower, Middle & Upper refer to the chronostratigraphic units (System, Series, Stage), not the geochronologic units derived from them (Period, Epoch, Age). So the Early Triassic Epoch is the time in which the rocks of the Lower Triassic Series were deposited.

 

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From: Paleonet [mailto:paleonet-bounces at nhm.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Petsios
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2015 2:33 PM
To: paleonet at nhm.ac.uk
Subject: Paleonet: New Epoch name convention?

 

Hello,

 

 

Through our recent interactions with a journal's copyediting process, we've been told that the new convention as of January 2015 for the names of epochs (e.g. Early Triassic, Middle Jurassic, etc), are now to be lower case (e.g. early Triassic, middle Jurassic, etc.), according to the International Commission on Stratigraphy's International Chronostratigraphic Chart (version 2015/01).

 

We haven't heard of this previously and were somewhat surprised. Has anyone else experienced this? Is the proper way to refer to the Early Triassic now Lower Triassic?

 

 

Thank you,

-Elizabeth

 

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