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 Discord server, where many informal discussions take place. 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: 61.5% complete 500 good articles: 51.8% complete 10% of all articles rated B-class or better: 50.5% complete 20,000 articles rated Start-class or better: 41.8% complete Revision and approval of the 25 taxon articles that were promoted to featured article status before 2010: 4% complete Assessment progression 3.5% List-Class 61.1% Stub-Class 22.9% Start-Class 7.8% C-Class 3% B-Class 1.1% GA-Class 0.6% FA-Class 0.1% remaining Article alerts Hot articles 22 edits Hortalotarsus 17 edits Chilesaurus 17 edits Myriacanthidae 16 edits Lambeosaurus 14 edits Tyrannasorus rex 13 edits 2025 in archosaur paleontology 12 edits Chimaeropsis 10 edits Dromicosaurus 10 edits Elasmosaurus 9 edits Ancylotherium These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 29 January 2025 by HotArticlesBot.

Did you know 25 Jan 2025 – Eosalmo (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Kevmin (t · c); see discussion Categories for discussion 22 Jan 2025 – Category:Prehistoric perciform genera (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Geekgecko (t · c); see discussion Redirects for discussion undated – Coronoidea (talk · edit · hist) →Blastoid was RfDed Good article nominees 28 Jan 2025 – Pokémon Fossil Museum (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by MatthewHoobin (t · c); see discussion 27 Jan 2025 – Hortalotarsus (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Jens Lallensack (t · c); start discussion 17 Jan 2025 – Tyrannasorus rex (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Surtsicna (t · c); see discussion 08 Sep 2024 – Robiatherium (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PrimalMustelid (t · c); start discussion 19 Jan 2025 – Tinodon (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by An anonymous username, not my real name (t · c) was promoted by Jens Lallensack (t · c), see discussion Peer reviews 28 Jan 2025 – Homo erectus (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Dunkleosteus77 (t · c); see discussion Articles to be merged 19 Jan 2025 – Novialoidea (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Pterosaur by A Cynical Idealist (t · c); see discussion 22 Jan 2025 – Dsungaripteroidea (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Pterodactyloidea by A Cynical Idealist (t · c) was closed; see discussion 19 Jan 2025 – Anhangueria (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Ornithocheiromorpha by A Cynical Idealist (t · c) was closed; see discussion 19 Jan 2025 – Ornithocheirae (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Ornithocheiromorpha by A Cynical Idealist (t · c) was closed; see discussion 19 Jan 2025 – Ctenochasmatoidea (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Archaeopterodactyloidea by A Cynical Idealist (t · c) was closed; see discussion 19 Jan 2025 – Euctenochasmatia (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Archaeopterodactyloidea by A Cynical Idealist (t · c) was closed; see discussion 19 Jan 2025 – Tapejaromorpha (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Azhdarchoidea by A Cynical Idealist (t · c) was closed; see discussion 19 Jan 2025 – Tapejaroidea (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Pterodactyloidea by A Cynical Idealist (t · c) was closed; see discussion 19 Jan 2025 – Ornithocheiroidea (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Pterodactyloidea by A Cynical Idealist (t · c) was closed; see discussion 19 Jan 2025 – Eupterodactyloidea (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Pterodactyloidea by A Cynical Idealist (t · c) was closed; see discussion (1 more...) Articles to be split 20 Jan 2025 – Gastornis (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Hemiauchenia (t · c); see discussion 21 Aug 2023 – Kota Formation (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Fritzmann2002 (t · c); see discussion Articles for creation 04 Nov 2024 – Draft:Akavassky Formation (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by GlamorousGeologist (t · c) Article quality statistics Palaeontology articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 3 19 27 74 123 FL 1 1 FM 13 13 GA 5 25 40 189 259 B 17 73 109 497 18 714 C 9 68 268 1,469 21 1,835 Start 1 68 394 4,933 23 5,419 Stub 13 170 14,273 32 14,488 List 3 17 43 740 12 815 Category 5,740 5,740 Disambig 22 22 File 53 53 Portal 693 693 Project 61 61 Redirect 1 3 29 747 960 1,740 Template 568 568 Other 11 11 Assessed 39 286 1,081 22,922 8,121 106 32,555 Unassessed 1 1 2 Total 39 286 1,081 22,923 8,121 107 32,557 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 124,017 Ω = 5.43