Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Ichthyovenator/archive1
Please check back at the end of the month for the May blurbs. - Dank (push to talk) 15:26, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
Gog, I see you reviewed this one ... I'm short on time, would you like to write a blurb for it? - Dank (push to talk) 13:44, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
Draft blurb edit
Ichthyovenator is a genus of spinosaurid dinosaurs that lived in what is now Laos, sometime between 125 and 113 million years ago. The fossils of a single specimen were found between 2010 and 2014 and became the holotype of the new genus and species Ichthyovenator laosensis. It is estimated to have been 8.5 to 10.5 metres (28 to 34 feet) long and weighed around 2.4 tonnes (2.6 short tons). Ichthyovenator is considered a primitive member of the Spinosaurinae. It would have had a long, shallow snout and robust forelimbs. It had a sail on its back that may have been used for sexual display or species recognition. Spinosaurids were probably adapted for semiaquatic lifestyles, and also ate small dinosaurs and pterosaurs. The diet of Ichthyovenator (meaning "fish hunter") probably consisted mainly of aquatic prey. The tall vertebral spines of Ichthyovenator's tail suggest that it may have aided in swimming—as in today's crocodilians. (Full article...)
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Hi PaleoGeekSquared and anyone else interested: a draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:24, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
- Just made a few tweaks for clarification on the anatomy but looks good otherwise, Gog the Mild. Definitely much better than what I could do! ▼PσlєοGєєкƧɊƲΔƦΣƉ▼ 22:27, 30 May 2020 (UTC)