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:

Did you know

• 12 Mar 2025 – Prunus cathybrownae (talk ·  · hist) was nominated for DYK by Kevmin (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 30 Mar 2025 – Mureropodia (talk ·  · hist) AfDed by IC1101-Capinatator (t · c) was closed; see discussion (5 participants)

Categories for discussion

• 26 Mar 2025 – Category:Dinosaurs of Canada (talk ·  · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 26 Mar 2025 – Category:Dinosaurs of the United States (talk ·  · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Mar 2025 – Category:Monotypic ornithischian genera (talk ·  · hist) was CfDed by Jlwoodwa (t · c); see discussion

Featured article candidates

• 26 Mar 2025 – Glyptotherium (talk ·  · hist) was FA nominated by Augustios Paleo (t · c); see discussion
• 07 Mar 2025 – Peking Man (talk ·  · hist) was FA nominated by Dunkleosteus77 (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 03 Apr 2025 – Keurbos (talk ·  · hist) was GA nominated by IC1101-Capinatator (t · c); start
• 29 Mar 2025 – Antennipatus (talk ·  · hist) was GA nominated by RenaMoonn (t · c); start
• 26 Mar 2025 – Kryptops (talk ·  · hist) was GA nominated by Augustios Paleo (t · c); start
• 24 Mar 2025 – Cretoperipatus (talk ·  · hist) was GA nominated by RenaMoonn (t · c); start
• 19 Mar 2025 – Uncus dzaugisi (talk ·  · hist) was GA nominated by ZKevinTheCat (t · c); start
• 24 Feb 2025 – Agapornis longipes (talk ·  · hist) was GA nominated by Olmagon (t · c); start
• 08 Feb 2025 – Arundelconodon (talk ·  · hist) was GA nominated by An anonymous username, not my real name (t · c); start
• 07 Feb 2025 – Amphimerycidae (talk ·  · hist) was GA nominated by PrimalMustelid (t · c); start
• 07 Feb 2025 – Pseudamphimeryx (talk ·  · hist) was GA nominated by PrimalMustelid (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 02 Apr 2025 – Koonwarra, Victoria (talk ·  · hist) is requested to be moved to Koonwarra by GMH Melbourne (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Feb 2025 – Sequoia dakotensis (talk ·  · hist) is requested to be moved to Sequoites dakotensis by Pbritti (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 26 Mar 2025 – Anhangueridae (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for merging to Ornithocheiridae by LittleLazyLass (t · c); see discussion
• 26 Mar 2025 – Ornithocheiridae (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for merging to Anhangueridae by LittleLazyLass (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Mar 2025 – Epanterias (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for merging to Allosaurus by KATgeneral1900 (t · c); see discussion
• 26 Feb 2025 – Tatankaceratops (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for merging to Triceratops by Junsik1223 (t · c); see discussion
• 26 Feb 2025 – Sinosauropterygidae (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for merging to Compsognathidae by SlvrHwk (t · c); see discussion
• 13 Feb 2025 – Thylacosmiliformes (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for merging to Sparassodonta by Hemiauchenia (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Feb 2025 – Aristonectinae (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for merging to Aristonectidae by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
• 26 Jan 2025 – Aristonectidae (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for merging to Aristonectinae by Amirani1746 (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 21 Aug 2023 – Kota Formation (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for splitting by Fritzmann2002 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 05 Mar 2025 – Draft:Big Joe (dinosaur) (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Sternenkuker ms (t · c)

The following are articles that have been assessed by members of WikiProject Palaeontology as being of high-importance but being severely lacking in their coverage. These articles are about organisms and concepts that are important for a variety of historical, cultural, or scientific reasons, but unfortunately their current coverage on Wikipedia falls very short of the standards of an encyclopedia. This list exists to help editors, and potential editors, who may be interested in helping WikiProject Palaeontology in the areas where that help is most desperately needed.

The importance of these articles to science is not properly represented by their current coverage on Wikipedia, and therefore work on these articles is of critical importance to the WikiProject, and to science communication as a whole. Ideally, all of these articles should be either Good Articles or Featured Articles, but due to either lack of interest or attention, these articles fall short of that standard. If improving one or more of these articles is of interest to you, but it is too big of a task to accomplish by oneself, just make a post on the Palaeontology Article Workshop and you should find some willing editors to help!