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: 65% complete 500 good articles: 62.8% complete 10% of all articles rated B-class or better: 73.6% complete 20,000 articles rated Start-class or better: 51.8% complete Revision and approval of the 25 taxon articles that were promoted to featured article status before 2010: 12% complete Assessment progression 3.4% List-Class 56.5% Stub-Class 24.3% Start-Class 9.1% C-Class 4.9% B-Class 1.2% GA-Class 0.5% FA-Class 0.1% remaining Article alerts These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days, daily updated by bot. Edits Article Rating 67 Camarasaurus GA 63 Megalodon FA 39 List of museums and colleges with mastodon fossils on display List 18 Aussiedraco Start 16 2026 in paleontology List 16 Calcari Grigi Group C 15 Mauritius scops owl GA 14 2026 in paleomammalogy List 14 William Diller Matthew Stub 13 Cuvieronius C

Articles for deletion 19 Jul 2026 – "Dryosaurus" grandis (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Wcquidditch (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted) Proposed deletions 14 Jul 2026 – Caradiophyodus (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Kowal2701 (t · c) was deleted 14 Jul 2026 – Protoitidae (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Kowal2701 (t · c) was deleted Good article nominees 27 Jul 2026 – Aussiedraco (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Augustios Paleo (t · c); start discussion 22 Jul 2026 – Tertiapatus (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by RenaMoonn (t · c); start discussion 15 Jul 2026 – Mauritius scops owl (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by FunkMonk (t · c); see discussion 02 Jul 2026 – Mapusaurus (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Augustios Paleo (t · c); start discussion 30 Jun 2026 – Patagorhacos (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Augustios Paleo (t · c); start discussion 28 Jun 2026 – Research history of Anoplotherium (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PrimalMustelid (t · c); start discussion 28 Jun 2026 – Anoplotheriidae (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PrimalMustelid (t · c); see discussion 02 Jun 2026 – Phorusrhacos (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Augustios Paleo (t · c); start discussion 01 Jun 2026 – Lophiodon (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PrimalMustelid (t · c); start discussion 02 Jan 2026 – Himalayan fossil hoax (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Chiswick Chap (t · c); start discussion (1 more...) Articles to be split 13 Jun 2026 – List of sauropodomorph type specimens (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Zsteve21 (t · c); see discussion 07 Mar 2026 – Crato Formation (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Montanoceratops (t · c); see discussion 19 Feb 2026 – Spinosaurus (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Junsik1223 (t · c); see discussion 08 Sep 2025 – Cosmopolitodus (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Macrophyseter (t · c); see discussion 07 Sep 2025 – Pliocene (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Florian Blaschke (t · c); see discussion 29 Aug 2025 – Diapsid (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 28 Apr 2026 – Draft:Trigonioidoidea (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by AlSardine (t · c) 03 Mar 2026 – Draft:Paleoheritage (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Porter314 (t · c) was accepted to Paleontological heritage (talk · edit · hist) by Alalch E. (t · c) on 24 Jul 2026 Article quality statistics Palaeontology articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 4 26 22 78 130 FL 1 1 FM 15 15 GA 9 43 35 226 313 B 18 180 177 882 14 1,271 C 6 153 271 1,913 9 2,352 Start 73 386 5,813 18 6,290 Stub 2 157 14,486 13 14,658 List 3 24 55 778 4 864 Category 6,023 6,023 Disambig 26 26 File 53 53 Portal 693 693 Project 67 67 Redirect 4 69 1,918 1,991 Template 939 939 Other 14 14 Assessed 40 502 1,107 24,245 9,748 58 35,700 Unassessed 3 3 Total 40 502 1,107 24,245 9,748 61 35,703 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 133,248 Ω = 5.33