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Section sizes

Section size for 2015 in paleontology (29 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	340	340
Plants	41	41
Cnidarians	28,235	28,235
Arthropods	56	56
Bryozoans	54	54
Brachiopods	33,706	33,706
Molluscs	54	54
Echinoderms	31,601	31,601
Conodonts	9,581	9,581
Fishes	47	47
Reptiles	83	83
Amphibians	15	11,158
Research	1,754	1,754
New taxa	16	9,389
Temnospondyls	3,014	3,014
Lepospondyls	1,828	1,828
Lissamphibians	3,837	3,837
Diadectomorphs	694	694
Synapsids	15	4,762
Non-mammalian synapsids	31	4,695
Research	685	685
New taxa	3,979	3,979
Mammals	52	52
Other animals	19	31,229
Research	571	571
New taxa	30,639	30,639
Other organisms	25,946	25,946
See also	81	81
References	132	132
Total	177,106	177,106

Contested deletion edit

Latest comment: 9 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

This page should not be speedy deleted as pure vandalism or a blatant hoax, because... some of the taxa on the page were described in papers submitted to APP that may not be published this year b/c a number of in-press papers to be presumably published in the December issue of APP appeared online in the first four months of 2013 and the next issue of APP can only publish a maximum of 12 articles (see http://www.app.pan.pl/issue/issue/forthcoming.html) --Extrapolaris (talk) 22:46, 10 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

@Extrapolaris: I removed the speedy delete, but the article should really clarify that it is a list of papers expected to be published in 2015. Saying that it is "discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred in the year 2015" runs afoul of WP:CRYSTAL. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 22:53, 10 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

Augustynolophus edit

Latest comment: 9 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Wasn't Augustynolophus formally described last year? Abyssal (talk) 19:23, 4 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

The electronic version of the article naming it was made available online in 2014, but it was not registered in ZooBank, so it didn't count as a valid publication. It wasn't until 2015 when it was published in a printed issue of Geological Magazine. --Macrochelys (talk) 17:46, 5 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

Middle Miocene wrasses edit

Latest comment: 8 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

It seems that the website of the journal Palaeontographica Abteilung A is no longer updated to display the newest published issues of the journal. Thus, I would like to ask: does anyone have an access to this article? Are any new species described there that could be added to 2015 in fish paleontology?--188.146.3.163 (talk) 21:11, 22 September 2015 (UTC)Reply

Should this study be added to this article? edit

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Barrett et al. 2015

Evolution of dinosaur epidermal structures

Biology Letters

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0229 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:249:A00:7090:A879:4125:26F5:C1EC (talk) 06:20, 1 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

Proposal to move sections to separate pages edit

Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I recently noticed that 2015 in reptile paleontology and 2015 in archosaur paleontology lack their own pages. They are some of the only recent pages in this "series" that lack this standard format. I don't expect anyone to care too much, but I wanted to post here to make sure no one was opposed to moving the reptile and archosaur sections of this article to their own respective pages. -SlvrHwk (talk) 02:26, 29 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

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