Wikipedia:WikiProject Palaeontology

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This WikiProject, WikiProject Palaeontology, aims to organise an effort to expand and improve Wikipedia's coverage of palaeontology-related articles. Please feel free to ask questions on our talk page or our chatroom (Discord server). If you wish to participate in this project, please list your name to Participants, and take a look at our open tasks. We are currently working towards five major milestones: 200 featured articles: 62% complete 500 good articles: 53% complete 10% of all articles rated B-class or better: 64.1% complete 20,000 articles rated Start-class or better: 45% complete Revision and approval of the 25 taxon articles that were promoted to featured article status before 2010: 8% complete Assessment progression 3.4% List-Class 59.1% Stub-Class 23.2% Start-Class 8.3% C-Class 4.2% B-Class 1.1% GA-Class 0.6% FA-Class 0.1% remaining Article alerts Hot articles 31 edits Duonychus 22 edits Aeduellidae 20 edits Gigantopithecus 18 edits List of dinosaur genera 16 edits 2025 in archosaur paleontology 16 edits Kryptops 14 edits Antennipatus 10 edits Tewkensuchus 9 edits Rhabdopleura 9 edits Limbunya Group These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 27 March 2025 by HotArticlesBot.

Did you know 12 Mar 2025 – Prunus cathybrownae (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Kevmin (t · c); see discussion Categories for discussion 26 Mar 2025 – Category:Dinosaurs of Canada (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion 26 Mar 2025 – Category:Dinosaurs of the United States (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion 18 Mar 2025 – Category:Monotypic ornithischian genera (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Jlwoodwa (t · c); see discussion Featured article candidates 26 Mar 2025 – Glyptotherium (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Augustios Paleo (t · c); see discussion 07 Mar 2025 – Peking Man (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Dunkleosteus77 (t · c); see discussion Featured list candidates 26 Feb 2025 – Paleobiota of the Posidonia Shale (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by Yewtharaptor (t · c); see discussion Good article nominees 26 Mar 2025 – Kryptops (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Augustios Paleo (t · c); start discussion 24 Mar 2025 – Cretoperipatus (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by RenaMoonn (t · c); start discussion 19 Mar 2025 – Uncus dzaugisi (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by ZKevinTheCat (t · c); start discussion 08 Mar 2025 – Arthropleura (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Prehistorica CM (t · c); see discussion 24 Feb 2025 – Agapornis longipes (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Olmagon (t · c); start discussion 08 Feb 2025 – Arundelconodon (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by An anonymous username, not my real name (t · c); start discussion 07 Feb 2025 – Amphimerycidae (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PrimalMustelid (t · c); start discussion 07 Feb 2025 – Pseudamphimeryx (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PrimalMustelid (t · c); see discussion 07 Feb 2025 – Amphimeryx (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PrimalMustelid (t · c); start discussion Requested moves 18 Feb 2025 – Sequoia dakotensis (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Sequoites dakotensis by Pbritti (t · c); see discussion Articles to be merged 26 Mar 2025 – Anhangueridae (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Ornithocheiridae by LittleLazyLass (t · c); see discussion 26 Mar 2025 – Ornithocheiridae (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Anhangueridae by LittleLazyLass (t · c); see discussion 01 Mar 2025 – Epanterias (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Allosaurus by KATgeneral1900 (t · c); see discussion 26 Feb 2025 – Tatankaceratops (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Triceratops by Junsik1223 (t · c); see discussion 26 Feb 2025 – Sinosauropterygidae (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Compsognathidae by SlvrHwk (t · c); see discussion 13 Feb 2025 – Thylacosmiliformes (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Sparassodonta by Hemiauchenia (t · c); see discussion 01 Feb 2025 – Aristonectinae (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Aristonectidae by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion 26 Jan 2025 – Aristonectidae (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Aristonectinae by Amirani1746 (t · c); see discussion Articles to be split 21 Aug 2023 – Kota Formation (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Fritzmann2002 (t · c); see discussion Articles for creation 05 Mar 2025 – Draft:Big Joe (dinosaur) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Sternenkuker ms (t · c) Article quality statistics Palaeontology articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 3 19 27 75 124 FL 1 1 FM 13 13 GA 5 25 40 195 265 B 16 85 148 751 10 1,010 C 9 64 264 1,633 22 1,992 Start 1 62 374 5,146 24 5,607 Stub 10 152 14,090 33 14,285 List 4 18 45 749 11 827 Category 5,716 5,716 Disambig 22 22 File 53 53 Portal 693 693 Project 61 61 Redirect 1 2 31 787 1,073 1,894 Template 468 468 Other 10 10 Assessed 39 285 1,082 23,426 8,109 100 33,041 Unassessed 1 2 3 Total 39 285 1,082 23,427 8,109 102 33,044 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 125,273 Ω = 5.38