Talk:2009 in paleontology

Turanoceratops

Turanoceratops is not a newly named dinosaur (Nessov, 1989) - this info was once removed from the article but later was added again. I think it should be removed. Darth Ag.Ent (talk) 00:33, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Done. Abyssal (talk) 14:50, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Arenysaurus, Psittacosaurus, and others

This just in: new species of lambeosaurine dinosaur has been found in Spain recently. Species has been described, yet it is not included on the list. Also, I believe there are a few other discoveries which have not been added. I'm pretty sure there was a new species of Psittacosaurus discovered: P. sinensis I believe. Not only that, but there was a report released which included its dietary habits. Says that the beak was used for breaking open nuts and seeds. This is the first actual evidence of a dinosaur being able to actually eat such material. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.172.178.127 (talk) 08:30, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Sereno's New Finds

What about the crocodiles described this year found by Paul Sereno? How come nobody added them to the list?

You could do it too. FunkMonk (talk) 16:41, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Funky's right, it's very difficult to keep up with the new discoveried and still have time to edit other articles. Abyssal (talk) 21:35, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Xinghesaurus

Is this really an existing dinosaur genus? I've checked Google search, and Google book search; nothing convincing ever turns up. Also, on wiki.answers.com, someone asks here about the genus, and the response given is that the genus could not be found in a lot of well-known third-party encyclopedias. My latest signature seems to uncannily apply in this situation: Oh no! It's not here!!! (talk) 12:02, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

I found this: Xinghesaurus: Hasegawa, Carpenter, Lamanna & Xu X., [nomen nudum; in Japanese guidebook "Dinosaur Expo 2009: The Miracle of Deserts"] [1]. Burmeister (talk) 12:39, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

I think it first showed up on Dinogeorge's list (http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html) which for some reason is not showing up on Google. J. Spencer (talk) 15:49, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Page organization

Out of curiosity is there a specific organization to the entries in the page, I see the top goes bird, Cephalopods, dinosaurs. I would like to add some insects into the list but don't know where to put an Arthropods section.--Kevmin (talk) 03:15, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

I think these usually just get put together in alphabetical order, so arthropods would come first. MMartyniuk (talk) 03:42, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Seconded on the alphabetical thing. Abyssal (talk) 07:27, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Cool, I alphabetized the list and added an initial entry for Arthropods (only insects at this point).--Kevmin (talk) 11:50, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Coahuilaceratops

Coahuilaceratops has already been named (Lowen et. al., 2010). Therefore, the appearance of the name Coahuilaceratops on the Internet prior to 2010 was due to the fact that the manuscript by Loewen et. al. was in press from 2008-2009.

Loewen, M.A., Sampson, S.D., Lund, E.K., Farke, A.A., Aguillón-Martínez, M.C., de Leon, C.A., Rodríguez-de la Rosa, R.A., Getty, M.A., Eberth, D.A., 2010, "Horned Dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, Mexico", In: Michael J. Ryan, Brenda J. Chinnery-Allgeier, and David A. Eberth (eds), New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium, Indiana University Press, 656 pp. 68.4.61.237 (talk) 01:20, 1 September 2010 (UTC)Vahe Demirjian