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 3.3% 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 64 Megalodon FA 61 Camarasaurus GA 39 List of museums and colleges with mastodon fossils on display List 23 2026 in paleomammalogy List 20 Dissacus Stub 17 Aussiedraco Start 16 Brancasaurus GA 16 Mauritius scops owl GA 15 Jurassic Park GA 14 William Diller Matthew Stub

Did you know 28 Jul 2026 – Camarasaurus (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Jens Lallensack (t · c); see discussion Articles for deletion 19 Jul 2026 – "Dryosaurus" grandis (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Wcquidditch (t · c); see discussion (5 participants; relisted) Proposed deletions 28 Jul 2026 – Daihua (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Kowal2701 (t · c): Presumptive removal of LLM-generated content, see {{slink|Wikipedia:AI noticeboard#Immanuelle}}. Feel free to reinstate by following the procedures for disputing presumptive removal of LLM-generated content. Featured article candidates 28 Jul 2026 – Mauritius scops owl (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by FunkMonk (t · c); see discussion 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 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 07 Dec 2025 – Choeropotamus (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PrimalMustelid (t · c); start discussion 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) 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 35 227 314 B 18 180 177 882 14 1,271 C 6 153 272 1,913 9 2,353 Start 1 73 386 5,814 18 6,292 Stub 2 158 14,486 13 14,659 List 2 24 55 778 4 863 Category 7,449 7,449 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 1,109 24,247 11,174 58 37,130 Unassessed 3 3 Total 40 502 1,109 24,247 11,174 61 37,133 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 133,261 Ω = 5.33