Talk:Megalosaurus

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The article said that the 1676 discovery was of "A jawbone and teeth" but Plot's picture clearly shows the lower extremity of a femur. Is this just a mistake, or was there more material recovered? Gdr 04:18:30, 2005-08-01 (UTC)

Yes, it seems there was another discovery in 1818. Gdr 04:20:41, 2005-08-01 (UTC)

[edit] Gallery of pics, for review please

Hi, No feedback from 'Image Review' page, so I've created a 'gallery' on the article, so that folk can take a look - I've put another message on the image review page, so it should turn up on people's 'watchlist', somewhere. (May have been missed with the hornet's nest created by my 'model' photos!) - Ballista 17:17, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Tricky, I had a load of images on other pages which I put into galleries only to have someone take it all off and redirect link to Wikipedia commons gallery. I have been working with some others and tend to agree the images have a bit more oompf when they are within the body of the text. A second photo of teh old-style reconstruction is probably redundant, while the bones could be scattered down the left size in a floating left column near where they are mentioned in the text. The trackway...? A mention then made of that separately, I guess.

I don't have any primary therapod texts which talk about this dinosaur unfortunately as I would add more. But I will look around. Cas Liber 21:06, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I realise some sensitivity about galleries - only done like that to make them available - we can then do as you (or others ) suggest, ref. positioning. Thanks for constructive response - Ballista 21:33, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

I think we should steer away from the gallery look. It is generally regarded as a sign of a lack imagination, where one can just plonk any old pic there without editing them carefully into the article's text. In my experience, galleries are frowned upon & usually are forced to be deleted during FAC or peer review. For now it should stay until more text is created to place the pics in, but after that, or if it is up for FAC, the gallery should be deleted... Spawn Man 02:46, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Seems entirely logical and I had intended that they should be selected and inserted, acc. to editors' decisions. - Ballista 02:55, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Grammar error?

"...he named the genus Megalosaurus, estimating it to be 12 m long." I'm just dumb foreigner, or did he estimate the genus, not animal itself, being 12 meters long? --195.148.29.73 15:24, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Good catch, I'll fix it.Dinoguy2 01:05, 20 October 2006 (UTC)