Wikipedia:WikiProject Palaeontology

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:

Today's featured articles

• 01 Nov 2026 – Europejara (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb

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

• 23 Oct 2026 – Satapliasauropus (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Jens Lallensack (t · c): This name does not exist outside of Wikipedia, and is not in the cited source. Possibly it is a spelling mistake of Satapliasaurus, which already has an article. and endorsed by UtherSRG (t · c) on 23 Oct 2026

Featured article candidates

• 11 Oct 2026 – Phorusrhacos (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Augustios Paleo (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 25 Oct 2026 – Carbotubulus (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by RenaMoonn (t · c); start discussion
• 22 Oct 2026 – Lantian Formation (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by DevonHalDraedle (t · c); start discussion
• 14 Oct 2026 – Ceratocara (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by An anonymous username, not my real name (t · c); start discussion
• 11 Oct 2026 – Devincenzia (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Augustios Paleo (t · c); start discussion
• 28 Sep 2026 – Aquilops (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by FunkMonk (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
• 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

(3 more...)

Featured article reviews

• 22 Oct 2026 – History of biology (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by George Ho (t · c); see discussion

Peer reviews

• 03 Oct 2026 – Neanderthal (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by ErnestKrause (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 22 Oct 2026 – Homo juluensis (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Xujiayao hominin by Junsik1223 (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
• 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)
• 22 Sep 2026 – Draft:Supermountain (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by NectarLupine (t · c)

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	39	226			316
B	18	181	175	897		14	1,285
C	7	154	282	1,980		10	2,433
Start	1	72	387	5,896		29	6,385
Stub		2	146	14,615		15	14,778
List	2	25	55	778		4	864
Category					7,495		7,495
Disambig					26		26
File					53		53
Portal					693		693
Project					67		67
Redirect		2	1	86	1,921		2,010
Template					959		959
Other					14		14
Assessed	41	507	1,107	24,557	11,243	72	37,527
Unassessed						11	11
Total	41	507	1,107	24,557	11,243	83	37,538
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 134,812			Ω = 5.32