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Plateosaurus

This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/March 22, 2016 by Brianboulton (talk) 14:38, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Plateosaurus (probably meaning "broad lizard", often mistranslated as "flat lizard") is a genus of plateosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Triassic period, around 214 to 204 million years ago, in what is now Central and Northern Europe. Plateosaurus is a basal (early) sauropodomorph dinosaur, a so-called "prosauropod". It is now among the dinosaurs best known to science: over 100 skeletons have been found, some of them nearly complete. The abundance of its fossils in Swabia, Germany, has led to the nickname Schwäbischer Lindwurm (Swabian lindworm). Plateosaurus was a bipedal herbivore with a small skull on a long, mobile neck, sharp but plump plant-crushing teeth, powerful hind limbs, short but muscular arms and grasping hands with large claws on three fingers, possibly used for defence and feeding. Unusually for a dinosaur, Plateosaurus showed strong developmental plasticity: instead of having a fairly uniform adult size, fully grown individuals were between 4.8 and 10 metres (16 and 33 ft) long and weighed between 600 and 4,000 kilograms (1,300 and 8,800 lb). Commonly, the animals lived for at least 12 to 20 years, but the maximum life span is not known. (Full article...)

Most recent similar article(s): January 29, 2016 (but it was Columbian mammoth)
Main editors: HMallison
Promoted: January 9, 2012
Reasons for nomination: no dinos on mainpage for a few months....
Support as nominator. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:52, 17 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - one dead link. sst✈^(conjugate) 12:49, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

removed. doi will have to do Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 13:25, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support. This is a well-written, thoughtfully-illustrated article on an interesting subject that presents new research on the animal's biology and behavior. Bede735 (talk) 01:38, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support: dinosaurs ruled the planet; they deserve more front page treatment. The article looks to be in good shape. Praemonitus (talk) 02:53, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]