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Cynical
adj. — "doubtful as to whether something will happen or whether it is worthwhile."

Idealist
n. — "a visionary or a person who cherishes or pursues high or noble principles, purposes, goals, etc."



Author of List of sauropodomorph type specimens, one of the top 50 longest Wikipedia articles
Articles written by me
Bad articles improved
List articles
Coelurosaur Stubs — PRIORITY
The Coelurosaur Project — Project Headquarters

14 / 35 stubs completed

Boldface indicates priority taxa.
Basal or uncertain coelurosaurs
Tyrannosaurs and megaraptorans
Ornithomimosaurs and therizinosaurs
Alvarezsaurs
Oviraptorosaurs
Non-avian paravians
Higher-order taxa
To-do list — more stubs
Do these first

Theropods — List
Non-avian theropods
Stem-birds or birds of uncertain affinity
Enantiornithes
Mesozoic euornithes


Sauropodomorphs — List
Prosauropods
Diplodocoids
Non-titanosaur macronarians
True Titanosaurs

Ornithischians — List
Misc ornithischians
Marginocephalians
Stem-hadrosaurs
Hadrosaurids


With over 510 million square-kilometers of surface area, the Earth is almost large enough to accommodate all the hubris of mankind (see also: Hatred, Wealth, Selfishness, and War)

Sandboxes



The Coelurosaur Project

Project HQ
Shenzhousaurus draft
Lingyuanosaurus draft
Paraves merge draft
Eudromaeosauria workshop

Workshops

Tables, etc.
Empty sandbox
Empty sandbox
Empty sandbox


Ongoing Work

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Active projects

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Future projects

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Cleaning up my own messes
  • Paratypes and Neotypes:
    • Add other types to marginocephalia
    • Add other types to thyreophora
    • Overhaul and add other types to ornithopoda
Other projects

Contributions

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Original artwork
Size diagrams
  • Dinosaur megafauna of the "Corythosaurus-Centrosaurus zone" of the DPF
    Dinosaur megafauna of the "Corythosaurus-Centrosaurus zone" of the DPF
  • Dinosaur fauna of the Cedar Mountain Formation's Mussentuchit Member
    Dinosaur fauna of the Cedar Mountain Formation's Mussentuchit Member
  • Dinosaur fauna of the Lujiatun Member of the Yixian Formation
    Dinosaur fauna of the Lujiatun Member of the Yixian Formation
Skeletal diagrams
Photos
Derivative works
Infobox Collages
  1. ^ Lü, JC; Xu, L; Chang, HL; Jia, SH; Zhang, JM; Gao, DS; Zhang, YY; Zhang, CJ; Ding, F (2018). "A new alvarezsaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Qiupa Formation of Luanchuan, Henan Province, central China". China Geology. 1: 28–35. doi:10.31035/cg2018005.
  2. ^ Qin, Zichuan; Clark, James; Choiniere, Jonah; Xu, Xing (2019). "A new alvarezsaurian theropod from the Upper Jurassic Shishugou Formation of western China". Scientific Reports. 9 (1): 11727. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-48148-7.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference bannykus was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference caenagnathids was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Wang, S.; Sun, C.; Sullivan, C.; Xu, X. (2013). "A new oviraptorid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of southern China". Zootaxa. 3640 (2): 242–257. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3640.2.7. PMID 26000415.
  6. ^ Lü., J., Xu, L., Jiang, X., Jia, S., Li, M., Yuan, C., Zhang, X. and Ji, Q. (2009). "A preliminary report on the new dinosaurian fauna from the Cretaceous of the Ruyang Basin, Henan Province of central China." Journal of the Palaeontological Society of Korea, 25: 43-56.
  7. ^ Lu, J. and Zhang, B.-K. (2005). "A new oviraptorid (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Nanxiong Basin, Guangdong Province of southern China." Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 44(3): 412–422.
  8. ^ Evans, D.C.; Cullen, T.M.; Larson, D.W.; Rego, A. (2017). "A new species of troodontid theropod (Dinosauria: Maniraptora) from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation (Maastrichtian) of Alberta, Canada". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 54 (8): 813–826. Bibcode:2017CaJES..54..813E. doi:10.1139/cjes-2017-0034.
  9. ^ Godefroit, P.; Demuynck, H.; Dyke, G.; Hu, D.; Escuillié, F. O.; Claeys, P. (2013). "Reduced plumage and flight ability of a new Jurassic paravian theropod from China". Nature Communications. 4: 1394. Bibcode:2013NatCo...4.1394G. doi:10.1038/ncomms2389. PMID 23340434.
  10. ^ Pei, R.; Qin, Yuying; Wen, Aishu; Zhao, Q.; Wang, Z.; Liu, Z.; Guo, W.; Liu, P.; Ye, W.; Wang, L.; Yin, Z.; Dai, R.; Xu, X. (2022). "A New Troodontid from the Upper Cretaceous Gobi Basin of Inner Mongolia, China". Cretaceous Research. 130: Article 105052. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2021.105052.
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