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Cardabiodon

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Thank you for quality articles about extinct fish of prey such as Cretoxyrhina )your first TFA) and Cardabiodon, for beginning with substantial article improvement, for defending the impact of extinct animal on today's world, - fishy swimmer, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2304 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:00, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

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Rice's whale weight estimate

Lockyear (1976, p. 271) gives the weight of Bryde's whale caught during Japanese whaling operations. The heaviest was a 13.8 m individual that weighed 16.15 tons. Bryde's that were of a similar length (12.8 m) to the type specimen of Rice's whale weighed roughly 12-15 tons. Sei whales of similar length were also of roughly the same weight (p. 271). She even lists a 12.9 m humpback that weighed 27.7 tons (p. 272). So how is a humpback (easily the most robust member of its family) and a Rice's whale (like all the members of its genus, very slender) going to weigh the same? BulbousCow (talk) 01:08, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@BulbousCow:

I appreciate your reaching out to my talk page. I've done a little bit of investigation myself, and it does seem that the few more recent studies that touch on the weight of large mysticetes largely corroborate the weight measures in Lockyear (1976). I haven't looked into the literature when you first brought up the issue, though I am a bit confused on how the NOAA would provide such a likely overestimate.

Although I am not aware of any explicit measurements of Rice's whale (I do not have full access to Rosel et al. (2021) at the moment, so I don't know if they measured the holotype during its necropsy), we can substitute for a more implicit weight estimate by mentioning the known weights of Bryde's whales of the same size, or corresponding to a size-weight function (an example of the latter would be saying that a Rice's whale length of 12.65 m would correspond to about 13.9 tons based on a length-weight function developed by Ohsumi (1980) (see Kato & Perrin (2009) since the 1980 paper isn't available online)). Macrophyseter | talk 17:18, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

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Promotion of Mosasaurus

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Thank you so much for your part in the FAC!! Macrophyseter | talk 18:15, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

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Thank you today for Mosasaurus, introduced: "This article will be the first article about a mosasaur (or any extinct marine reptile apex predator) to receive a FAC. It is about the type genus of the mosasaurs, which is one one of the largest marine predators in history. It is also quite culturally significant. The stories of its fossils are historically and culturally significant in the Netherlands and France, and they stood alongside the mastodon and Megalosaurus as the pioneering fossils that helped develop concepts like extinction and the precursors of evolution. Thanks to films like Jurassic World the genus today is among the most iconic prehistoric creatures. In addition, we know a substantial deal about the biology of the animal, which I've summarized the spectrum of breadth of in this article, covering just about every published literature that touches on the genus."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:00, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

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Taniwhasaurus

Hello Macrophyseter, I know that you are currently very busy with your articles on mosasaurs, but knowing that you are a great enthusiast of these creatures, I thought to myself if we could collaborate for the expansion of my draft that I am doing with Taniwhasaurus, if ever you have the sources that allow you to do such a thing. Amirani1746 (talk) 19:42, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

• Hi Amirani1746, thanks for reaching out! Expanding the article sounds amazing, but I am currently not sure how much time I have available to be an active contributor as I am juggling an especially busy winter; if I am available it would probably be a little next week. But seeing what you have already added, I think you have already done a phenomenal job! Macrophyseter | talk 06:28, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

  Macrophyseter Thank you very much for the answer! As a reminder, I continue to take care of the expansion while waiting for your contribution. Amirani1746 (talk) 09:25, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

  Hello again Macrophyseter, i have updated Taniwhasaurus and expanded the article concerning Kaikaifilu, what do you thinks about these both for obtain the GA ? Amirani1746 (talk) 08:14, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

  Amirani1746 I think the Taniwhasaurus article looks pretty good! Really appreciate the neurovascular diagram you drew in particular. Less sure about how well Kaikaifilu will fare because it seems to be a taxon with poor foundations that has a chance of being declared nomen dubium in the future. If you feel confident about both articles, you should go ahead and put them up for review. As long as you remain up to date on addressing the reviewer's comments I'm sure they will pass given the current level of quality. Macrophyseter | talk 00:16, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

  Macrophyseter thanks a lot for your compliments. I thought that as you have access to more sources than me on Taniwhasaurus (some of which are available for a fee), you could help me expand on certain points in the article that I potentially forgot. As for Kaikaifilu, although its fossils are very poorly preserved, I am not sure if it will be declared nomen dubium in the future, because it has notable differences with other tylosaurines. Furthermore, even if this were the case, it would not even have prevented labeling because many taxa that are in this case are already labeled. For example, this is notably the case of the article concerning the elasmosaurid Scanisaurus. Amirani1746 (talk) 07:59, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

  Are there any specific sources you can't access for Taniwhasaurus? I think the article as is already strong for a genus that isn't as well-represented, and the forgotten points you mention may be things that will get addressed during a review.

  I personally don't oppose a GA-status article of Kaikaifilu at this time, but wanted to comment that its notability as an article may be threatened if new fossils and a taxonomic revision thoroughly kills the taxon (as unlike Scanisaurus, it lacks much historical notability being been named only 7 years ago). Even with differences with other tylosaurines, it's disputed whether the holotype is diagnostic at the subfamily level at all. Jiménez-Huidobro and Caldwell presented an abstract detailing their personal observations mentioned in the 2019 tylosaurine paper here [1] (page 41 of pdf). The one trait considered diagnostic in Otero et al. (2017) that isn't explicitly mentioned in the abstract (the lateral process before the orbits) might not be worth much because we currently don't have fossils of that region in Moanasaurus and so there's a chance it might have it too.

  It is true that Scanisaurus might continue to be labeled despite its dubious status, but this is generally a bad practice with the colors of a wastebasket taxon that's only done by people who either don't have the resources to deal with the hassle of taxonomic clean-ups, have a bias towards slapping names on fossils, or don't feel established enough to consider their putative opinions sufficiently authoritative. Macrophyseter | talk 18:34, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

  Hello again Macrophyseter, here are the titles of the two sources which could help me to better finalize the article and their usefulness:

  • Gregory S. Paul (2022). The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Sea Reptiles. Princeton University Press. pp. 166–176. doi:10.2307/j.ctv2hnkc6h. ISBN 978-0-69-119380-9. S2CID 251553177. (For the size and body mass of T. antarcticus)
  • Marta Fernández; James E. Martin (2009). "Description and phylogenetic relationships of Taniwhasaurus antarcticus (Mosasauridae, Tylosaurinae) from the upper Campanian (Cretaceous) of Antarctica". Cretaceous Research. 30 (3): 717–726. Bibcode:2009CrRes..30..717F. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2008.12.012. S2CID 129028759. (for more little details about T. antarcticus)

  Amirani1746 (talk) 15:25, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

Rice's whale

As someone who knows next to nothing about cetaceans, I saw an article about Rice's whale being critically endangered, and looked here at WP for information. What an excellent and thorough article -- thank you! But I'd like to make a couple of suggestions:

• Appearance and coloring: The illustration, three photos together labeled "Variations in dorsal fins and backs", can seem to an inattentive reader to show that the dorsal fin can be located close behind the head, or at the rear, or in the center of the back, since we see neither head nor flukes in any of them. I think this caption needs to better clarify what the photos are intended to show. My own first impression was that the white in the top photo was light reflection, and in the other two, at water level, was churn foam rather than actual marks on the whales' bodies. The author's description "variability in slight white body wash coloration between the dorsal fin and blowhole" seems unhelpfully worded to me, but did disabuse me of what I was looking at; nor do I see a blowhole in any of the three photos. (The bottom photo shows some sort of small indentation in the whale's side, posterior to the dorsal fin, which is surely not a blowhole.)
• In the second paragraph of this section the word "peduncle" is linked to an illustration of fish fins, which is bad enough given that some readers may not understand that no whale is ever a fish. As best I understand the word "peduncle" it would refer to where the tail flukes are attached to the body. But the dab page for the word, at caudal peduncle, mentions only fish, not cetateans. If the word "peduncle" is the technical term for the flukes' attachment in cetaceans, the dab page for the word should be fixed to include them.

Milkunderwood (talk) 10:11, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

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Mosasauroidea

I really don't think it's necessary to have three articles. If you're just going to make Mosasaur about Mosasauridae, then having a separate stub article for Mosasauroidea separate from Mosasauria seems redundant, given that it could easily be covered in the Mosasauria article. Hemiauchenia (talk) 21:35, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

I apologize if my actions are too decisive, but I found it necessary to set some clarifications in order about mosasaur taxonomy and semantics to avoid further confusion. The stub status is temporary, and there's quite an amount of sources available to make a well-written distinct article for whoever would like to take it on. Regarding redundancy, mosasauroids are regarded as quite distinct from dolichosaurs (as Slate Weasel pointed out in the Mosasaur talk page), and aigialosaurs are furthermore treated as a distinct grouping from mosasaurs (including by the snake chapter you linked). It's hence arguably the smoothest to split the mosasaur article along those lines. Since most aigialosaurs are not classified in either Aigialosauridae or Mosasauridae in current literature, a separate Mosasauroidea article would be the best option to adequately represent them.

Hope to discuss this further in the Mosasaur talk page, Macrophyseter | talk 22:16, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello again Macrophyseter, i wanted to tell that there is a new free paper who extent the range of Mosasaurus beaugei in North Carolina, which could well expand the assertions presented on this chapter concerned. The address link is as follows:

• Trevor H. Rempert; Brennan P. Martens; Alexander P. M. Vinkeles Melchers (2024). "Mosasaurs (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Late Cretaceous (Late Maastrichtian) of North Carolina, USA". Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS. 328 (3): 384–391. doi:10.31610/trudyzin/2024.328.3.384. S2CID 272074521.

Amirani1746 (talk) 19:18, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi, I'm familiar with the paper. You're free to do add it to the article if you'd like. Macrophyseter | talk 00:25, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

Skeletal anatomy of Kronosaurus

Hello again Macrophyseter ! As you know, you are, along with me and Slate Weasel, one of the most interested paleontological users in the maritime domain. Currently I have considerably expanded the article about the well known Kronosaurus (mainly about historical research and discoveries, but very poor about anatomical descriptions for now) and the enigmatic Megalneusaurus (in general this time). The validity of Kronosaurus being strongly defended in recently published studies thanks to numerous addionnal specimens discovered (with the exception of the Harvard material, which is temporarily attributed to Eiectus), I wondered if you could expand the article on the cranial section of the animal. I found several good studies that can help you considerably if you get started :

• Kear, Benjamin P. (2003). "Cretaceous marine reptiles of Australia: a review of taxonomy and distribution" (PDF). Cretaceous Research. 24 (3): 277–303. Bibcode:2003CrRes..24..277K. doi:10.1016/S0195-6671(03)00046-6. S2CID 128619215.

• McHenry, Colin R. (2009). Devourer of Gods: The palaeoecology of the Cretaceous pliosaur Kronosaurus queenslandicus (Thesis). The University of Newcastle. hdl:1959.13/935911. S2CID 132852950.

• Timothy Holland (2018). "The mandible of Kronosaurus queenslandicus Longman, 1924 (Pliosauridae, Brachaucheniinae), from the Lower Cretaceous of northwest Queensland, Australia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 38 (5): e1511569. doi:10.1080/02724634.2018.1511569. JSTOR 26765770. S2CID 91599158.

However, as I said previously, if you are interested to accept this proposition, this does not include the work on the Harvard specimens, which are (for now) of dubious attribution. Cordially, Amirani1746 (talk) 15:04, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for reaching out! Unfortunately, I'm really busy in university and so cannot promise commitment to an expansion at this time. But glad to see the article get much-needed treatment! Macrophyseter | talk 22:52, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Macrophyseter Thanks for responding then ! Amirani1746 (talk) 07:27, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

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