User:Cougroyalty
About Me
[edit]For some reason this alternate account was also created for me.
My original account: User:CougRoyalty
My old account was started up in 2008, but fell into disuse. I began using this current account in 2020 when I started up my wikipedia activity again. This new account was apparently accidentally created when I tried to log into my old account but forgot to capitalize the "R". Weird.
Coug = short for Cougar. (See also Washington State Cougars.) And then Royalty, because... eh, I dunno... it was a while ago... (I don't actually belong to any royal family - at least that I am aware of...)
I am interested in evolutionary biology/paleontology, and I enjoy building cladograms.
Some stuff I've done
[edit]- Neornithiscian dinosaurs:
- Added cladogram for Galleonosaurus/Neornithischia and related articles
- Created cladogram for Convolosaurus
- Created article for Thescelosauridae (un-merged from Parksosauridae), then participated in a discussion to merge Parksosauridae into Thescelosauridae
- Bugs: (I know, very scientific term there...)
- For some reason, I did a bit of work updating this obscure family of daddy long legs spiders (which apparently aren't actually spiders): Sclerosomatidae
- And here's the first new article I created with this account: Urocerus albicornis Yay! (I had a cool picture to go with it.)
- Did some evolution info and cladogram work for Psocodea (lice), Paraneoptera (bugs), and related articles
- Merged Psocoptera with Psocodea, then undid the merge, then updated info and added new cladograms, and did some work in the subgroups
- Did some significant updates to Template:Psocodea
- Created Philotarsetae
- Added pictures for Diplotaxis (beetle) (I took this picture) and Diplotaxis sordida (but I didn't take this picture, I just found it)
- And then another picture for the Forked Globetail (Sphaerophoria sulphuripes)
- Crustaceans:
- Created cool cladogram with pictures for Decapoda and related articles
- And then created expanded cladograms for Brachyura (crabs), Anomura (hermit crabs), etc.
- Created Reptantia page (converted from a redirect page)
- Created Template:Decapoda
- Separated Astacoidea out from crayfish, since crayfish also includes Parastacoidea
- Updated Astacidae and other crayfish articles (why crayfish? how do I get sucked into these weird topics?)
- Added cladogram for Ophiojura - a creepy deep sea brittle star - and NOT a crustacean
- Artiodactyla:
- Spread around a cool Artiodactyla cladogram with pictures on pages for sub-clades, such as Pecora, Cetacea, Suina, etc.
- Merged Ruminantia with ruminants
- Crocodilians - Did a lot of work updating evolution info and cladograms for all crocodilians. This whole area is in flux and the science is disputed (although seeming to move towards a resolution). It is all because the paleontologists can only compare morphology of skeletons, whereas the extant biologists can also compare molecular evidence acquired through DNA sequencing. The dispute largely centers around the gharial. It is so weird looking with it's long thin snout, so the paleontologists think it diverged from all the other crocodilians first and is the least closely related. However, DNA comparisons continue to show that the gharial emerged much more recently, rapidly acquiring it's unique features. And that it recently diverged from it's closest relative, the false gharial, and that together, they are more closely related to crocodiles than to alligators. So here is some work I've done:
- Created Longirostres, the new clade that show the gharial and false gharial more closely related to crocodiles than to alligators
- Updated the evolution info and added cladograms for Crocodilia, Crocodyloidea, Gavialoidea, Crocodylus, Alligatoroidea, Diplocynodon, etc. - and many more crocodile articles
- Merged Crocodylidae with crocodiles, and then created Crocodylinae
- Figured out how to add cladograms that show paraphyletic groupings for Gryposuchinae and Tomistominae - these are cool!
- Used clade groupings to make a cool colorful cladogram for Crocodylus anthropophagus
- Created three little side-by-side comparison cladograms for Allodaposuchidae
- Tried to figure out the latest phylogeny for some of the (proposed) members of Globidonta: Navajosuchus, Stangerochampsa, Brachychampsa
- Created Orientalosuchina and Orientalosuchus, and added neat little continent pictures to cladogram
- Created page for the genus Tomistoma (copied most information from the False gharial page)
- Also created Ultrastenos, Jiangxisuchus, Dadagavialis, & Melitosaurus
- Prehistoric fish: the fish related to the cool Dunkleosteus
- Created Eubrachythoraci, Dunkleosteoidea, Golshanichthys, Westralichthys, Erikaspis, and many more
- Lots of edits to already existing pages: Dunkleosteus, Coccosteina, Dunkleosteidae, Heterosteidae, Herasmius, Yinostius, Xiangshuiosteus, and many more
- Updated Template:Arthrodira
- Snakes
- Erythrolamprus pseudoreginae - the Tobago stream snake
- Leptophis - parrot snakes
- added Colubridae cladogram to Colubrinae and others
- added Ahaetuliinae caldogram to Proahaetulla page, and others
- Fish
- Zagreus debate - And here was a fun and interesting debate about whether to include the Hades video game character in a popular culture section of the Zagreus article: Talk:Zagreus
- Cladogram requests: I've also helped out here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Cladogram requests
- Redirect category: Created {{R from species to genus}} (converted from a redirect itself)