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

• 25 Jan 2025 – Eosalmo (talk ·  · hist) was nominated for DYK by Kevmin (t · c); see discussion

Categories for discussion

• 01 Feb 2025 – Category:Pliocene events (talk ·  · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Feb 2025 – Category:Neogene events (talk ·  · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
• 22 Jan 2025 – Category:Prehistoric perciform genera (talk ·  · hist) CfDed by Geekgecko (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Good article nominees

• 28 Jan 2025 – Pokémon Fossil Museum (talk ·  · hist) was GA nominated by MatthewHoobin (t · c); see discussion
• 27 Jan 2025 – Hortalotarsus (talk ·  · hist) GA nominated by Jens Lallensack (t · c) was promoted by Simongraham (t · c), see discussion

Peer reviews

• 28 Jan 2025 – Homo erectus (talk ·  · hist) has been put up for PR by Dunkleosteus77 (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 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
• 19 Jan 2025 – Novialoidea (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for merging to Pterosaur by A Cynical Idealist (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

• 16 Dec 2024 – Draft:Tulip Beds (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Fossiladder13 (t · c)
• 04 Nov 2024 – Draft:Akavassky Formation (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by GlamorousGeologist (t · c)
• 02 Feb 2025 – Draft:Grossaspis (talk ·  · hist) submitted for AfC by Sclerotized (t · c) was accepted to Grossaspis (talk ·  · hist) by Cinder painter (t · c) on 03 Feb 2025