User:Dinoguy2

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Fossil range: Late Jurassic

The AMNH Saurischian Hall

Conservation status

Extinct (fossil)

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Subkingdom:	Bilateria
Superphylum:	Deuterostomia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Superclass:	Tetrapoda
Class:	Sauropsida
Subclass:	Diapsida
Infraclass:	Archosauromorpha
(unranked)	Ornithodira
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	Theropoda
Infraorder:	Coelurosauria
Superfamily:	Tyrannosauroidea
Family:	Tyrannosauridae Osborn, 1906
Genus:	Tyrannosaurus
Species:	T. rex

Binomial name

Tyrannosaurus rex
Osborn, 1905

Familes

I'm an "armchair paleontologist" trying to make myself useful patroling a few areas of interest here on Wikipedia. I try to keep abreast of recent developments, to stay current, and to make myself useful by correcting any glaring errors I find or filling in glaring omissions.

1 Cheers
2 Useful Links
- 2.1 Wikiproject Dinosaurs
3 Taxonomy and Standardization
4 What Wiki Should Require
5 Pages I've Started
6 Images I've Uploaded
7 This user

[edit] Cheers

I'm flattered to get awards, but really, the people giving them to me usually do a lot more for the cause than I have in my short time here. They're the real heroes, so good on you guys!

		The Photographer's Barnstar
		Hi - here's a little something, to acknowledge your recent (and previous) great photographic contributions, esp. to dino project. - Ballista 06:35, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

For major help on the Dinosaur article, -- Spawn Man 02:56, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

For all your great work on Dinosaurs in general

The E=MC² Barnstar For your dedicated scientific work on WP:Dinosaurs. --Firsfron 02:11, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Cheers! from Ballista 05:49, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Useful Links

Prehistoric bird, Birds by classification cat, Prehistoric birds cat, Theropod database taxa, Aves phylogeny, Benton's taxonomy, List of dinosaurs

[edit] Wikiproject Dinosaurs

For now, I want to cite two articles that are triumphs of this project.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Dinosaurs/missing Since the project started, members have created articles for nearly every single dinosaur genus. That's no small feat!
Palaeosaurus - This is what happens when Wikipedians who know their stuff collaborate. A detailed and well-written history of one of the most confusing taxonomic situations I've ever heard of.

[edit] Taxonomy and Standardization

Due mainly to lack of objection, I've gotten Benton's taxonomy accepted by Wikipedia:Wikiproject Tree of Life and Wikipedia:WikiProject Dinosaurs. A lot of taxoboxes either list a totally phylogenetic classification with no ranks, or many superfluous unranked taxa. These things should be short and sweet-use unranked higher taxa on species pages only if it contains widely used or relevent information, preferably linked to an existnant article. For example, a taxobox for Utahraptor might list "(Unranked) Maniraptora", since maniraptors are a well-known and distinctive clade, or Coelurosauria (same reason), but both would be messy and slightly redundant (it might be better to list coelurosauria for basal coelurosaurs and maniraptora for maniraptorans). Again, using Tetanurae for species far removed from basal tetanurans would become cumbersome, but appropriate for, say, megalosaurids and spinosaurids. Use your own discretion.

"Linnaean nomenclature is stable enough to say what we know, flexible enough to accommodate what we learn; independent of specific theory, yet reflective of known empirical data; compatible with phylogenetic theory, but not a slave to it; particular enough for precise communication, general enough to reflect refuted hypotheses." --Quentin Wheeler

[edit] What Wiki Should Require

Proof that all editors have at least completed High School, so we can avoid the butchering of the English language. From an entry on The Dig:

The Dig was idealized both as an episode of Amazing Stories and as a movie in different times, but Spielberg concluded that it would be very expensive and difficult. In 1996, the director did not disrespect the possibility to make it in the future but this is highly doubtful since as of 2005 nothing about it has been reported. Chills the bones to read it...

Almost as bone chilling as this entry, from Spinosaurus:

though jp3 might say t rex would loose it is easy to tell the would not meet but if they did tyrannosaurus would win because why did the name spinosaurus king of the dinosaurs(tyrannosaurus rex meens that) if they thought it was stronger? because t rex was and still is the most fiersome dinosaur to ever walk the earth!! Yikes. Just yikes.