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: 66.5% 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: 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 64 Miracinonyx B 51 Ffabach C 48 Neanderthal GA 33 Gloynia C 32 Pleistocene Park C 28 Virgin Hills Formation Start 25 2026 in paleontology List 25 Edrathina B 24 2026 in archosaur paleontology List 24 Tylotites Start

Did you know 20 Sep 2026 – Big Al (dinosaur) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Beta Beta Beta (t · c); see discussion 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 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...) Peer reviews 03 Oct 2026 – Neanderthal (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by ErnestKrause (t · c); see 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 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 03 Oct 2026 – Draft:Sociedade de História Natural (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by SilentMeridian 2026 (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) 02 Oct 2026 – Draft:Tylotites (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by BashfulBenis22 (t · c) was accepted to Tylotites (talk · edit · hist) by Sophisticatedevening (t · c) on 04 Oct 2026 Article quality statistics Palaeontology articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 4 28 22 79 133 FL 1 1 FM 15 15 GA 9 42 37 226 314 B 18 179 177 896 14 1,284 C 6 155 273 1,948 10 2,392 Start 1 73 384 5,876 27 6,361 Stub 1 2 156 14,585 14 14,758 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 82 1,921 2,006 Template 956 956 Other 15 15 Assessed 41 507 1,105 24,468 11,240 69 37,430 Unassessed 4 4 Total 41 507 1,105 24,468 11,240 73 37,434 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 134,401 Ω = 5.32