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: 62.5% complete 500 good articles: 57.8% complete 10% of all articles rated B-class or better: 70.2% complete 20,000 articles rated Start-class or better: 46.8% complete Revision and approval of the 25 taxon articles that were promoted to featured article status before 2010: 8% complete Assessment progression 3.4% List-Class 58.4% Stub-Class 23.1% Start-Class 8.6% C-Class 4.7% B-Class 1.2% GA-Class 0.6% FA-Class 0% remaining Article alerts Hot articles 23 edits Massospondylus 19 edits Megalneusaurus 13 edits Pulaosaurus 12 edits Leptobos 12 edits Diabloceratops 11 edits Acanothyia 10 edits Riley Black 9 edits Last universal common ancestor 9 edits 2025 in paleontology 8 edits Marosichthys These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 14 July 2025 by HotArticlesBot.

Today's featured articles 28 Jul 2025 – Edward Drinker Cope (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb Did you know 27 Jun 2025 – Palaeocarpinus (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Kevmin (t · c); see discussion Articles for deletion 03 Jul 2025 – Mammoth tusk discovery at Dutch Hat Cliff (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Plantdrew (t · c) was closed as redirect by Left guide (t · c) on 10 Jul 2025; see discussion (8 participants) Categories for discussion 07 Jul 2025 – Category:Prehistoric giraffes (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion Redirects for discussion 13 Jul 2025 – European primitive cave lion (talk · edit · hist) →Panthera gombaszogensis was RfDed by Hemiauchenia (t · c); see discussion Featured article candidates 16 Jun 2025 – Sima de los Huesos hominins (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Dunkleosteus77 (t · c); see discussion Good article nominees 05 May 2025 – Stenoplesictis (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PrimalMustelid (t · c); see discussion 23 Apr 2025 – Plagiolophus (mammal) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PrimalMustelid (t · c); start discussion 07 Feb 2025 – Amphimerycidae (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PrimalMustelid (t · c); start discussion Good topic candidates 23 May 2025 – Apatosaurinae (talk · edit · hist) was GT nominated by Augustios Paleo (t · c); see discussion Peer reviews 05 Jul 2025 – Megalneusaurus (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Amirani1746 (t · c); see discussion 19 Jun 2025 – Neanderthal (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Dunkleosteus77 (t · c); see discussion Articles to be merged 08 Jul 2025 – Sahaliyania (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Amurosaurus by FunkMonk (t · c); see discussion Articles to be split 21 Aug 2023 – Kota Formation (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Fritzmann2002 (t · c); see discussion Article quality statistics Palaeontology articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA Total FA 4 26 22 73 125 FL 1 1 FM 13 13 GA 8 43 32 205 288 B 18 170 165 791 1,144 C 6 155 265 1,682 2,108 Start 75 380 5,242 5,697 Stub 3 161 14,225 14,389 List 4 24 54 758 840 Category 5,736 5,736 Disambig 24 24 File 53 53 Portal 693 693 Project 63 63 Redirect 2 1,908 1,910 Template 483 483 Other 9 9 Assessed 40 497 1,079 22,978 8,982 33,576 Total 40 497 1,079 22,978 8,982 33,576 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 127,281 Ω = 5.36