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: 63% complete 10% of all articles rated B-class or better: 73.6% complete 20,000 articles rated Start-class or better: 51.9% 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% 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 44 Camarasaurus GA 38 Alvania francescoi Stub 17 Anoplotheriidae GA 16 2026 in paleomammalogy List 14 Amphiaspidiformes C 14 Protoichthyosaurus B 13 2022 in paleomammalogy List 13 Denisovan GA 13 Konkasaurus C 13 List of museums and colleges with mastodon fossils on display List 13 Macroeuphractus Start 13 Marnes d'Auzas Formation Stub

Today's featured articles 22 Aug 2026 – Edmontosaurus mummy SMF R 4036 (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb Articles for deletion 10 Aug 2026 – Graphical timeline of prehistoric life (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by XanderK09 (t · c); see discussion (6 participants) 31 Jul 2026 – List of museums and colleges with mastodon fossils on display (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Lavalizard101 (t · c) was closed as keep by Cavarrone (t · c) on 07 Aug 2026; see discussion (8 participants) Categories for discussion 12 Aug 2026 – Category:Palaeontology user templates (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Andrybak (t · c); see discussion Featured article candidates 09 Aug 2026 – Camarasaurus (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Jens Lallensack (t · c); see discussion 28 Jul 2026 – Mauritius scops owl (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by FunkMonk (t · c); see discussion Good article nominees 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 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 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 Requested moves 05 Aug 2026 – Anhanguera (pterosaur) (talk · edit · hist) move request to Anhanguera by 1isall (t · c) was moved to Anhanguera (talk · edit · hist); see discussion Articles to be split 12 Aug 2026 – Tamiami Formation (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by RealGatba (t · c); see discussion 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 04 Aug 2026 – Draft:Chesalophodon (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by ~2026-40224-38 (t · c) was declined 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 18 180 178 884 14 1,274 C 6 153 273 1,924 10 2,366 Start 1 73 385 5,820 20 6,299 Stub 1 2 157 14,493 13 14,666 List 2 24 55 778 4 863 Category 7,479 7,479 Disambig 26 26 File 53 53 Portal 693 693 Project 67 67 Redirect 1 72 1,921 1,994 Template 943 943 Other 15 15 Assessed 41 502 1,106 24,276 11,212 61 37,198 Total 41 502 1,106 24,276 11,212 61 37,198 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 133,399 Ω = 5.33