Talk:Europasaurus

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A fact from Europasaurus appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 June 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a new "dwarf" dinosaur, a sauropod named Europasaurus (pictured), was recently discovered in Northern Germany?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/June.

Wikipedia

Nature article images?

Long shot, but I know we've used some "press release" type images in articles before (Tiktaalik, Hagryphus, Guanlong, etc.) Any change we can legally nick these? [1].Dinoguy2 23:13, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think so, not legally. So far, there hasn't been a press release re: Europasaurus, at least not one that's been mentioned anywhere online, and these aren't press-release images. However, I'm thinking that I may contact Sander this evening for permission to use the images (or possibly others not included in this paper).--Nar'eth 23:16, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In the meantime, many good images have been uploaded to Commons, so we have enough to go around. I'd like to point out some free images on Flickr that may be of interest, but the text is in Japanese, so I'm not sure what their significance is:[2][3][4] Maybe these are discussed in some of the papers. FunkMonk (talk) 23:54, 24 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I've looked, and the image of three dentaries are the same three as used in the cranial osteology paper, so they could be useful. But I forget how to upload flickr files, its been a long time ... IJReid ^{{{T - C - D - R}}} 00:01, 25 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's pretty easy, just go here[5] and paste a link in the lower field. FunkMonk (talk) 00:07, 25 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Macronaria

Is Macronaria an Infraorder?--MWAK 06:15, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No, though I'm not sure if anyone has named it as such. Sauropoda is an infraorder of suborder Sauropodomorpha.Dinoguy2 13:18, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Papers

For those who don't have them yet, the three Europasaurus papers are available here [6].Dinoguy2 13:18, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If only all paleontologists (and magazines of course) would be so forthcoming!--MWAK 16:56, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New description paper out:[7] FunkMonk (talk) 23:17, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2000 km^2

This is a bit odd: "as even the largest of these islands in the Lower Saxony basin (a landmass <2,000 square kilometers) would not have possessed sufficient food for a population of large sauropods." Well, sure, not for the 20 tonne types; but Europasaurus was smaller than moose or bison, which are known to live on very small islands (Isle Royale at ~500 km^2 has moose; Antelope Island at ~100 km^2 has bison). 128.194.250.106 (talk) 08:27, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Isn't that what's meant by specifying "large"? This was a dwarf sauropod, relatively speaking. MMartyniuk (talk) 23:49, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This was resolved in a recent change. Turns out it was 200,000 km squared, not 2,000. IJReid ^{{{T - C - D - R}}} 00:03, 25 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder if it is really necessary to have an entire section about skin, a feature not known from this animal at all? At most, I'd expect a brief mention that dinosaurs of this kind are thought to have had a particular kind of skin, but not more, since none of such sources would specifically mention Europeasaurus. FunkMonk (talk) 08:39, 27 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Its not really necessary, its here mostly because I wrote it for neosauropoda. It can probably be slimmed down and moved into the top of the description, or into another section. IJReid ^{{{T - C - D - R}}} 14:47, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]