Talk:Chilantaisaurus

size

it states weight but not lenth. What is the lenth?Spinodontosaurus (talk) 21:05, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

I don't think anybody has ever estimated the length. Dinoguy2 (talk) 21:10, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

There is length estimates. 11-13m by Greg Paul and Holtz. Could some one add it to the page? Dinosaur Fan (talk) 07:42, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Links

Some of the reference links doesn't work. Like http://archosaur.us/theropoddatabase/Coelurosauria.htm#Chilantaisaurussibiricus Dinosaur Fan (talk) 07:40, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Formation

It is also said that Chilantaisaurus hails from Suhongtu Formation which dates from Early Cretaceous, not Ulansuhai. Huinculsaurus (talk) 05:27, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

GA review

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Nominator: Augustios Paleo (talk · contribs) 03:07, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

Reviewer: ZooBlazer (talk · contribs) 19:46, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

I'll do this. I should have my review posted by Tuesday. -- ZooBlazer 19:46, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

I'm not an expert when it comes to dinosaurs, so if you feel any of my comments are incorrect, just let me know. -- ZooBlazer 20:48, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

I believe I fixed everything. I am also uploading a diagram I made comparing the humerus of Chilantaisaurus to those of other theropods. Thank you for your suggestions. AFH (talk) 23:18, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

@Augustios Paleo

A couple things still need cleaned up:

• Is the question mark correct in the temporal range part of the infobox?
• Did you just miss changing the format of "humerus:femur length ratio" or is that the standard way of writing ratios as opposed to "humerus-to-femur length ratio"?
• The text in the Description section still says "Their hypotheses was supported". It needs to be either "hypothesis was" or "hypotheses were".
• In paragraph 2, it still says "Zanno and Makovicky (2013), however several authors" instead of using a semicolon before "however".
• The sentence introducing the cladogram in paragraph 2 still says "Benson, Carrano and Brusatte" without the comma after Carrano for consitency.
• Still 2 instances of "Aranciaga-Rolando" in the third paragraph. If the hyphen is supposed to be there, update the uses of Aranciaga Rolando in the prose and refs
• Apesteguía still needs the accent over the I to match the ref
• Refs 1 and 5 appear to still be dupes of each other. The only noticeable difference is one uses "David" and the other uses "David C"
• Ref 11 uses "PLOS One" while the rest use "PLOS ONE"
• Many refs still need author initials spaced out, for example, Ref 3 still reads "Benson R.B.J.; Carrano M.T.; Brusatte S.L." and Ref 7 still reads "Brusatte, S.L.; Chure, D.J". If no spaces are standard for these kinds of articles, let me know.

I think you've addressed the majority of the comments, just a few things that need addressed one way or another. -- ZooBlazer 01:29, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

Changed format for book citations as well. How does this look? AFH (talk) 14:44, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

Copvio check

• No issues picked up by earwig

Infobox and lead

• ?Santonian–Campanian -- Is there supposed to be a question mark in the temporal range?
• C. tashuikouensis, -- The comma should be outside the italics
• This indicates these fossils date to... feels a bit repetitive right after mentioning the Ulansuhai Formation. Maybe smooth it out to something like: "These rock layers are thought to date to the..."
• largest known of any megaraptoran. The article seems to establish that its classification is debated, so it should probably be slightly reworded to something like: "any purported megaraptoran" or "possible megaraptoran"
• Hu believed it was a member of Carnosauria, however later studies have challenged this notion -- Change the comma before "however" to a semicolon or a period.
• You have Uluanshi Formation instead of Ulansuhai Formation twice. First in the third paragraph of the lead and then in Paleoecology.

Discovery and species

• in at the Tashuikou site -- Remove the "in"
• The strata of the Tashuikou site is made up... -- Since "strata" is the plural form of "stratum", this should be changed to "The strata... are made up"
• The sentences wrapping up the first paragraph get a bit redundant -- though the age of this formation is debated and then immediately following up with The age of the Ulansuhai Formation is not constrained with confidence.
• The material was found disarticulated and consists of: -- Remove the colon
• a complete right and incomplete left tibiae -- It should use the singular "tibia" for the left bone, since there is only one left tibia.
• Chilantai Salk Lake --> Salt Lake
• the Greek word saurus -- I think this is slightly inaccurate, as saurus is the Latinized form of the Greek sauros.
• is refers to the Tashuikou site -- Remove "is"
• was made paralectotypes --> "were designated as paralectotypes"
• to C. tashuikouensis, however none of these remains -- Change the comma before "however" to a semicolon to fix the run-on.
• C. tahsuikouensis has the h and s swapped.

Species

• in a thesis, however American researcher... -- Swap the comma before "however" for a semicolon.
• Molnar and collagues -- colleagues is missing an "e".
• similarities in their unguals, however recent studies... -- Change the comma to a semicolon.
• with the other therizinosaurs Alxasaurus, Enigmosaurus, and Therizinosauridae has a slight structural mismatch. Since Alxasaurus and Enigmosaurus are genera, but Therizinosauridae is a family, it would be clearer to phrase it as "with therizinosaur genera like Alxasaurus and Enigmosaurus, as well as the family Therizinosauridae". Or at least something like that.
• One more comma splice in Wolfe (2001), however this has not seen widespread use. Swap the comma before "however" for a semicolon.

Description

• indicates the greater capacity --> "indicates a greater capacity"
• The final sentence of paragraph 1 is quite long and borders on being a run-on. It could probably be split after "megaraptoran" --> "...assuming that it was a megaraptoran. This indicates it was comparable in size...".
• humerus:femur length ratio is a bit informal for standard prose. It usually reads better written out as "humerus-to-femur length ratio".
• are an elongate, well-defined vascular grooves that runs. -- Depending on the exact anatomy, this should either be completely singular ("is an elongate, well-defined vascular groove that runs") or completely plural ("are elongate, well-defined vascular grooves that run").
• While the anterior end of the ilia... bear. -- Since "end" is singular, it should either be "bears a recurved process" or you can change the subject to plural ("anterior ends... bear").
• oriented medially (towards right). -- Doesn't "medial" mean towards the midline of the body? Not necessarily the right side (which would depend entirely on whether it's the left or right femur).
• slightly proximally (towards body) angled is slightly clunky. Swapping the word order to "angled slightly proximally (towards the body)" flows better.
• like Giganotosaurus, however not to the degree. Swap the comma before "however" for a semicolon.

Classification

• The transition starting with Although, Harris (1998) placed... is grammatically awkward due to the comma after "Although". Maybe swap it to something like "Later, Harris (1998) placed..." or "Alternatively, Harris (1998) placed...".
• many studies since.[24][30][2] . -- deleted the period after the refs
• When introducing Allain and colleagues classified the genus..., you should probably include the year of the publication right away (e.g., "Allain and colleagues (2012)"), even though the year is mentioned a few sentences later.
• shallow astragular facet --> "astragalar facet"
• and one of few spinosaurids unearthed in Asia --> "and one of the few spinosaurids".
• Benson and collagues is missing an "e" in "colleagues".
• Their hypotheses was supported. This should either be made entirely singular ("Their hypothesis was supported") or entirely plural ("Their hypotheses were supported").
• Zanno and Makovicky (2013), however several authors. Swap the comma before "however" for a semicolon or split it into two sentences.
• In the final sentence introducing the cladogram, add a serial comma after "Carrano" ("Benson, Carrano, and Brusatte") to match the comma style used in the first sentence of the paragraph.
• exlclusive --> "exclusive".
• Benson, Carrano, and Brusatte (2010)'s analysis is awkward because of the possessive attached to the year. It would flow better as "the 2010 analysis by Benson, Carrano, and Brusatte" or "Benson, Carrano, and Brusatte's (2010) analysis".
• Alexos --> "Alexis" . Also drop the hyphen in Aranciaga-Rolando to match their name in the citation.
• Novas & Federico Agnolín -- swap the "&" for "and"
• You use Apesteguia et al. (2016) but to maintain consistency with how you've handled other groups of authors throughout the article, it is better to write it as "Apesteguía and colleagues (2016)". Also be sure to include the accent over the "i".
• genera like Concavenator, Afrovenator, and Sinraptor -- Commas should be outside the italics
• A third theory on megaraptoran classification and origins formulated starting in 2016, which purported... -- Add "was" before "formulated" (or change it to "emerged").
• Sebastian --> "Sebastián"
• Porifiri and colleagues --> "Porfiri"
• Later that year, Delcourt & Grillo... -- swap the "&" for "and"
• Drop the hyphen in Aranciaga-Rolando
• as similar to the results -- Drop "as"
• Kellermann, Cuesta & Rauhut. Swap the "&" for "and"

Paleoecology

• As mentioned in the comments for the lead, fix the spelling of "Uluanshi Formation" to "Ulansuhai Formation"
• Maybe add commas around such as calcrete --> "However, some geologic features, such as calcrete, indicate..."

Spot checks/ref formatting

Ref numbers are accurate as of

• In general the refs have inconsistent ways of formatting author names. For instance, Ref 21 uses "Paul, G.S." while Ref 22 spells the name out "Paul, Gregory S.". You need to standardize this across the entire reference list.
• Refs 1 and 5 are duplicate citations for the exact same 2021 Evans et al. paper
• Ref 9 (Brusatte et al., 2009) uses commas instead of semicolons to separate authors, includes "and", and is missing volume, issue, and page numbers for the journal (if they are available).
• Ref 13 (Riabinin, 1914) needs a "|trans-title=" parameter for an English translation of the title.
• Ref 14 (Dong, 1979) seems to have a stray colon before the page numbers ("Science Press.: 342–350") since there is no volume or page numbers.
• Ref 21 ("Paul, G.S."), the initials are missing a space. It should be formatted as "G. S." This applies to all other refs with initials as well.
• Some citations use the YYYY-MM-DD format (Ref 24 uses "2013-11-22" and Ref 34 uses "2013-10-01"), while others use the Day Month Year format (Ref 30 uses "1 March 2019" and Ref 39 uses "7 July 2022"). Pick one format and apply it to all journal publication dates.
• Check the capitalization of PLOS ONE. Ref 25 uses "PLoS ONE", while Refs 31, 32, and 36 use "PLOS ONE".

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Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by RandomEditsForWhenIRemember (talk) 17:58, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

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• ... that the Chinese dinosaur Chilantaisaurus is only known from a few, giant bones including a huge hand claw?

• Source: http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/889/1/Benson_and_Xu_2008.pdf

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Improved to Good Article status by Augustios Paleo (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

AFH (talk) 19:36, 12 May 2026 (UTC).

• Passed GA recently enough, long enough, well-sourced and neutral, a few spot checks show no issues. The hook is short enough and interesting; no QPQ required. An easy pass. Whonting (talk) 06:54, 17 May 2026 (UTC)