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February 7

Russian geography help requested for large prehistoric creature article series

I'm a paleontology editor and I've been compiling lists of prehistoric life by geographic region (example) based on data extracted from the Paleobiology Database. As the largest country in the world the prehistoric life of Russia was naturally too diverse to fit in a single article so I've been compiling lists of fossils by federal subject. Unfortunately the database isn't entirely consistent with how it labeled fossils by federal subject of origin. There are variant transliterations, use of geographic regions instead of formal administrative divisions, use of city names in place of federal subjects, and other potential sources of confusion.

I'm not an expert on Russian geography so I need some help to make sense of this all. I've listed all of the various labels from the database under the federal subjects that I think each label is synonymous with or contained within. I was wondering if any of you guys who are familiar with Russian geography could proofread this list and make sure that none of these associations are mistaken. I've cross-posted this to the talk page of WikiProject Russia but discussions there are slow and I was hoping for greater exposure as I want to get some work done on this project this weekend. Abyssal (talk) 17:06, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

I suggest you look at who's editted Geology of Russia as a start. μηδείς (talk) 03:59, 8 February 2018 (UTC)