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: 66% complete 500 good articles: 63% complete 10% of all articles rated B-class or better: 73.5% complete 20,000 articles rated Start-class or better: 52.4% 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 56.4% Stub-Class 24.3% Start-Class 9.2% C-Class 4.9% B-Class 1.2% GA-Class 0.6% 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 80 Edrathina B 75 Miracinonyx B 49 Ffabach C 38 Pleistocene Park C 33 2026 in archosaur paleontology List 30 Gloynia C 29 Megalodon FA 28 Protamphisopus wianamattensis Start 27 Cravens Peak Beds Stub 25 2026 in paleoentomology List

Did you know 20 Sep 2026 – Big Al (dinosaur) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Beta Beta Beta (t · c); see discussion Proposed deletions 21 Sep 2026 – Xu Jie (geologist) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Dionysodorus (t · c) was deleted Categories for discussion 02 Oct 2026 – Category:Palaeontologists from Northern Ireland (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion Templates for discussion 29 Sep 2026 – Template:Taxonomy/Mosasauroid (talk · edit · hist) was TfDed by Ashorocetus (t · c); see discussion Featured article candidates 09 Aug 2026 – Camarasaurus (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Jens Lallensack (t · c); see discussion Good article nominees 28 Sep 2026 – Aquilops (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by FunkMonk (t · c); start discussion 10 Sep 2026 – Miracinonyx (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Junsik1223 (t · c); see discussion 09 Sep 2026 – Diprotodontidae (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Thepharoah17 (t · c); start discussion 01 Sep 2026 – Apataelurus (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Independentgeoscience (t · c); see discussion 02 Aug 2026 – Carbotubulus (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by RenaMoonn (t · c); start discussion 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 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 01 Jun 2026 – Lophiodon (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PrimalMustelid (t · c); start discussion (2 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 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 02 Oct 2026 – Draft:Tylotites (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by BashfulBenis22 (t · c) 23 Sep 2026 – Draft:Paranaschisma (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by ~2026-51182-55 (t · c) 22 Sep 2026 – Draft:Supermountain (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by NectarLupine (t · c) 26 Sep 2026 – Draft:Turkanapithecus (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Luxinhas (t · c) was accepted to Turkanapithecus (talk · edit · hist) by UtherSRG (t · c) on 27 Sep 2026 Article quality statistics Palaeontology articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 4 27 22 79 132 FL 1 1 FM 15 15 GA 9 43 37 226 315 B 18 179 177 893 14 1,281 C 6 155 273 1,947 10 2,391 Start 1 73 384 5,874 25 6,357 Stub 1 2 156 14,581 14 14,754 List 2 25 55 776 4 862 Category 7,494 7,494 Disambig 26 26 File 53 53 Portal 693 693 Project 67 67 Redirect 2 1 80 1,921 2,004 Template 956 956 Other 15 15 Assessed 41 507 1,105 24,456 11,240 67 37,416 Unassessed 1 2 3 Total 41 507 1,105 24,457 11,240 69 37,419 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 134,346 Ω = 5.32