Talk:List of lost dinosaur specimens
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Useful code (please don't archive this section)
editHere is a blank table whose code can be conveniently copy-pasted in the main article when needed. I've used internal notes to label the columns each cell in the row belong to. Please don't archive this section heading as it should be available to editors perpetually to ease adding to the list. Abyssal (talk) 01:29, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
Nickname | Catalogue Number | Institution | Taxon | Age | Unit | Country | Notes | Images |
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Adding to the list
edit- I'm not sure how to add stuff to this list, seems a bit complicated. I want to add the third Dilophosaurus specimen which was for some reason not collected, but not sure how. And of course, where is all the German stuff destroyed in WW2? FunkMonk (talk) 22:19, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
Specimen numbers
editCould also be good with a column for specimen numbers. There is also massive inconsistency between what labels are present in each column, which I don't know how to fix. FunkMonk (talk) 04:27, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
- There was one. Someone went through and removed it, bizarrely. I just readded it. Abyssal (talk) 14:04, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
- I wonder if the nickname field is needed. Do any of these fossils even have nicknames? FunkMonk (talk) 16:03, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
Rename to simpler title
editThe current title seems very unwieldy. Doesn't "lost" already cover destroyed, for example? FunkMonk (talk) 17:49, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
Widen scope to "lost fossils"
editThe list now has a pretty narrow scope, and is therefore quite short. Wouldn't it be more useful if we widened the scope to all kinds of fossils? Plenty of interesting ones to add. FunkMonk (talk) 18:38, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Personally, I think this would be pretty untenable... there have been major institutions that have lost a significant number of their specimens, likely thousands for each, and there are various other specimens that have been destroyed, damaged, or misplaced; restricting it to dinosaurs would make things more manageable. --Slate Weasel [Talk - Contribs] 18:26, 10 February 2024 (UTC)