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Dodos and the Rodrigues solitaire should be marked as extinct #514

Closed hyanwong closed 3 months ago

hyanwong commented 3 years ago

They are currently extant on the synthetic tree

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Author Yan Wong
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URL tree.opentreeoflife.org/opentree/argus/opentree12.3@ott543770/Raphidae
Target node label Raphidae
Synthetic tree id opentree12.3
Synthetic tree node id ott543770
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Supporting reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigues_solitaire
TonyRees commented 2 years ago

Speaking from an IRMNG perspective (also probably as per WoRMS) we only presently distinguish "extant" from "fossil", the latter cuts in from around AD 1500 and before - to include subfossils like Moas etc. I (we) do not have a category for "recently extinct" but I have sometimes thought that we should have one... I will approach WoRMS (who provide the software that supports both systems) and ask for their thoughts, and relay back here if I/we get anywhere further. (Not sure if GBIF etc. have similar logic, I will include Markus on the email). Cheers - Tony Rees, IRMNG

mtholder commented 3 months ago

will be fixed with https://github.com/OpenTreeOfLife/edOTTs/commit/9d7b1a0c15ecb9d063857064ea59fd3313e653d2