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A fact from Choristodera appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 July 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Choristodera are extinct reptiles that lived during the time of the dinosaurs and have a skull structure similar to that of the modern day Gharial?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/July.

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I wish this excellent article began with a brief paragraph telling what a Choristoderan was on a simplistic Discovery Channel level, simply to orient the reader before take-off. --Wetman 00:12, 15 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

First sentence

"Champsosauridae is the most common family of the Choristodera and typifies the group."

Makes no sense. I can't modify it though, because I'm not sure what it's supposed to mean. Help anyone? John.Conway 08:43, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm guessing it means either champsosaurids are the most abundant choristodere fossils, or the most commonly known family. Don't know enough about the group to tell if wither of those are correct... and whether or not they typify the group is subjective. This article looks like it may have been (incopletely) renovated at some point from a more exclusive article on champsosaurs. Dinoguy2 11:33, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well no, it is not so bad, The Champsosauridae are the family of Choristoderans that are the most abundant in the fossil record, have the most species in the order and were possibly the longest surviving family within the order, surviving in some regions of North America into the Eocene I believe. They are also the most easily recognizable Choristederans and arguably the largest.( Shawn Doran, Vertebrate Palaeontology department,ROM) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.167.195.31 (talk) 08:41, 29 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Hyphalosaurus picture as a representative taxon

I propose this, since the Champsosaurus restoration is severely outdated and my Simoedosaurus one is controversial.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Falconfly (talk • contribs)

@Falconfly:, I don't want to see you blocked for constant edit warring, but, would it be at all possible if you could try to make an effort to get consensus, first?--Mr Fink (talk) 19:44, 23 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The image of Hyphalosaurus is uncontroversial in terms of accuracy, so I see no problem with it. Since it'd be an easy fix to the controversy over things, I don't see why not to use it, personally. Lusotitan (Talk | Contributions) 19:52, 23 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

We could always go review it at: WP:PALEOART. I'm going to place it there right now. ----Slate Weasel (talk|contribs) 00:31, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]