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The dating of the Age of the Silurians was uncertain. | The dating of the Age of the Silurians was uncertain. | ||
[[John Quinn]]'s research came to the conclusion that the Silurians existed in the [[Silurian era]], but the [[Third Doctor]] believed this to be inaccurate. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)}}) | [[John Quinn]]'s research came to the conclusion that the Silurians existed in the [[Silurian era]], but the [[Third Doctor]] believed this to be inaccurate. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)}}) However, other sources indicated that life had not yet evolved into the state in which the Silurians existed and that the Silurians evolved long after the Silurian era. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|A History of the Universe (short story)}}, {{Cs|Prehistory Repeating Itself (feature)}}) | ||
The Silurians under [[Wenley Moor]] had a globe depicting [[Pangaea|the supercontinent]] which existed before the [[Great Continental Drift]]. The Third Doctor dated that state of the Earth to 200 million BC, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)}}) the transition point from the [[Triassic]] to [[Jurassic]]. Indeed, Pangaea broke up in the Jurassic. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Prehistory Repeating Itself (feature)}}) | |||
The Third Doctor believed that the Silurians existed in the [[Eocene era]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Sea Devils (TV story)}}) The [[Eleventh Doctor]] acknowledged that some would argue that the Silurians should be called Eocenes. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Hungry Earth (TV story)}}) Indeed, [[Ruth Drexler]] believed that the Silurians were properly called Eocenes, having roamed the Earth some 50 million years prior to [[2085]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Silurian Candidate (audio story)}}) | Some accounts indicated the Silurian Age occurred entirely in the [[Cretaceous]], which ended with the [[K-T extinction event]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Prehistory Repeating Itself (feature)}}, {{cs|The Silurians (feature)}}) | ||
The Third Doctor believed that the Silurians existed in the [[Eocene era]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Sea Devils (TV story)}}) The [[Eleventh Doctor]] acknowledged that some would argue that the Silurians should be called Eocenes. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Hungry Earth (TV story)}}) Indeed, [[Ruth Drexler]] believed that the Silurians were properly called Eocenes, having roamed the Earth some 50 million years prior to [[2085]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Silurian Candidate (audio story)}}) One [[history book (A History of the Universe)|history book]] indicated that the Silurians and Sea Devils lived in the Eocene, having evolved from dinosaurs who survived the extinction event. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|A History of the Universe (short story)}}) [[Justin Richards (in-universe)|Justin Richards]]'s research indicated that the Eocene theory of Silurian dating was probably incorrect. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)}}) | |||
The [[Sixth Doctor]] claimed that the Silurians ruled the Earth whilst [[mankind]] was in its [[infancy]] as the [[primitive]] [[Australopithecus]], "many hundreds of thousands of years" prior to [[1835]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Bloodtide (audio story)}}) | The [[Sixth Doctor]] claimed that the Silurians ruled the Earth whilst [[mankind]] was in its [[infancy]] as the [[primitive]] [[Australopithecus]], "many hundreds of thousands of years" prior to [[1835]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Bloodtide (audio story)}}) | ||
