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Obligatory link to thagomizer -- I'm not sure just what sort of source we'd need to include it in the article. -- 201.53.124.69 ( talk) 14:54, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
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I'm willing to give this one a go! Enwebb ( talk) 00:14, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
This led to the description of new genera such as the hadrosaur Ouranosaurus from Lower Cretaceous rocks.I read this thinking that that the sentence was going to keep going and list more than one genus, given that you used the word genera. Can you include another example? Or change it to ...the description of new taxa such as the hadrosaur genus Ouranosaurus...?
An official excavation permit was promised to the museum in 2006; in return, the museum was to build and equip a new school for local Tuareg children in the settlement of Injitanewho promised the excavation permit?
...but were to be managed by the Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, in Niamey, Niger, in the futureso did they reach an agreement with the government or something? This is a little unclear, and I am unfamiliar with the politics of fossils. You could add an explanatory clause here: "but, according to the terms of an agreement between x and y, were to be managed by the Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, in Niamey, Niger, in the future."
The two specimens were considered to belong to the same taxon since the skeletal elements that overlapped between them were identical, and because of the proximity of the skeletons in the same stratigraphic layer.I felt like this was going to be followed by a sentence that they are no longer considered the same taxon. If not the case, perhaps consider using a present tense verb here.
...Spinophorosaurus is one of the few sauropods preserving a complete neckI feel like this is odd phrasing. Perhaps instead it could be "Spinophorosaurus is one of the few sauropods whose fossils contain a complete neck" or something
That's what I have for right now!
Probably just a few more things--
I've concluded that this fine article meets (and indeed exceeds) the six GA criteria. Pass!
Enwebb (
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Isn't metric ton, short ton and all the rest of it now outdated for scientific purposes? In this scientific article I suggest we simply use tonne. 5.81.164.70 ( talk) 12:54, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
There's a very nice skeletal reconstruction + size comparison of Spinophorosaurus in this paper about neck mobility: [1]. Somewhat puzzlingly, it's missing the tail spikes... Lythronaxargestes ( talk | contribs) 19:11, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
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Obligatory link to thagomizer -- I'm not sure just what sort of source we'd need to include it in the article. -- 201.53.124.69 ( talk) 14:54, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
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Reviewer: Enwebb ( talk · contribs) 00:14, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
I'm willing to give this one a go! Enwebb ( talk) 00:14, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
This led to the description of new genera such as the hadrosaur Ouranosaurus from Lower Cretaceous rocks.I read this thinking that that the sentence was going to keep going and list more than one genus, given that you used the word genera. Can you include another example? Or change it to ...the description of new taxa such as the hadrosaur genus Ouranosaurus...?
An official excavation permit was promised to the museum in 2006; in return, the museum was to build and equip a new school for local Tuareg children in the settlement of Injitanewho promised the excavation permit?
...but were to be managed by the Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, in Niamey, Niger, in the futureso did they reach an agreement with the government or something? This is a little unclear, and I am unfamiliar with the politics of fossils. You could add an explanatory clause here: "but, according to the terms of an agreement between x and y, were to be managed by the Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, in Niamey, Niger, in the future."
The two specimens were considered to belong to the same taxon since the skeletal elements that overlapped between them were identical, and because of the proximity of the skeletons in the same stratigraphic layer.I felt like this was going to be followed by a sentence that they are no longer considered the same taxon. If not the case, perhaps consider using a present tense verb here.
...Spinophorosaurus is one of the few sauropods preserving a complete neckI feel like this is odd phrasing. Perhaps instead it could be "Spinophorosaurus is one of the few sauropods whose fossils contain a complete neck" or something
That's what I have for right now!
Probably just a few more things--
I've concluded that this fine article meets (and indeed exceeds) the six GA criteria. Pass!
Enwebb (
talk)
14:31, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
Isn't metric ton, short ton and all the rest of it now outdated for scientific purposes? In this scientific article I suggest we simply use tonne. 5.81.164.70 ( talk) 12:54, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
There's a very nice skeletal reconstruction + size comparison of Spinophorosaurus in this paper about neck mobility: [1]. Somewhat puzzlingly, it's missing the tail spikes... Lythronaxargestes ( talk | contribs) 19:11, 13 January 2020 (UTC)