Talk:Mosasaurus

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Prim mosasaur.jpg

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Prim mosasaur.jpg

message: The story of how these bones were studied in Haarlem is pretty interesting, and Napoleon wanted to take it to Paris. In the spirit of the current Wikipedia:GLAM/Teylers/Multilingual Challenge it would be great to promote this article to B status. Does anyone know how? Jane (talk) 18:40, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  sorry for the hiatus, it's, unfortunately, a bit tricky with the formatting with adding the Teylers skull without creating a text sandwich or some other eyesore. Unless there's a trick I'm not thinking of? Macrophyseter | talk 01:36, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: There's the multiple image template (as used in for example Podokesaurus), which may or may not be suitable to create more space here. FunkMonk (talk) 06:56, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Added the change. Macrophyseter | talk 23:05, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: The story of mosasaurus

message: According to the text, the size of the animal was at most 18 meters. Is your scale not a bit generous? Have you used any sources for this image?–Totie (talk) 03:11, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: One wouldn't need a source here, other than the one given in the text (Mulder, 1999). Let's suppose the diver is a male at more or less common length, so let's say 1.7 metre. Including the fins and regarding the bended knees, that would make about 1.9 metre in total. I can fit the diver 11 times in the animal, so that would roughly make 20.9 metres. The overestimation doesn't seem to be alarming. If I were asked, I'd say the "disputed-tag" is a bit nitpicking.  Wikiklaas  22:17, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Mulder (1999) does not provide a length estimate, who knows why someone added it to support that claim. Read my comment above to know about the origin of the 18m Mosasaurus, also 21m vs 18m is a big difference, is like claiming to depict a 6ft/180lbs guy but your depiction actually shows a 7ft/300lbs guy. Mike.BRZ (talk) 21:16, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The comparison should be scaled to a known inflexible skeletal element of the largest specimen and then double checked against this image. Total length means nothing unless the exact proportions are given. Dinoguy2 (talk) 19:22, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I replaced the disputed-tag. I overlooked that a milder form exists. Nevertheless, I still think that this matter should be discussed. Wikipedia does not allow original research and requires reliable, secondary sources for verification. If the author created this image based on just textual information and without any other supporting data to make sure that the image is at least factually solid, then I think that this is a problem. I point out that the text does not explain what this length estimate comprises. You now assume that the tail fin is included, but this is not mentioned anywhere.–Totie (talk) 04:05, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

text: Largest described Mosasaurus lower jaw is 1.7m (Grigoriev 2014), the proportions of almost complete large specimens of Tylosaurus and Prognathodon suggest that the lower jaw is 14%-15% of the total body length. The silhouette in the size chart in question appears to be redrawn from Scott Hartman's Tylosaurus skeletal which posses such proprotions, so we either change the size to almost half of what's depicted in the image or we modify it to give it the shape of an eel. Mike.BRZ (talk) 09:15, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

text: I removed the image now, given lack of feedback from the author.–Totie (talk) 16:15, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mosasaurus size comparison image 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Is the picture accurate?
To me it looks like a whale, which is a mammal.
82.72.139.164 (talk) 07:16, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, we now know that mosasaurs were not eel-like in their shape and movements, and had shark-like tail-flukes. FunkMonk (talk) 09:01, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture looks like a whale?? 

message: The picture in the description section has one eating a theropod, even though that's not listed in it's prey list.
Can the list either be updated, or a better picture be sourced? 194.28.124.52 (talk) 02:46, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: That is nonsensical, if an African lion stumbles across an American deer, it will eat it regardless of whether it is among its usual prey (or is on a list, for that matter). FunkMonk (talk) 08:33, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello there, I'm the person who made that image quite a while ago. We have several cases of dinosaurs washing into the ocean, notably Borealopelta and the theropod in the image, Betasuchus. Betasuchus was actually found in the same formation as the holotype of Mosasaurus. I originally labelled the prey item, but said labelling was deemed irrelevant and removed. The reason it's not on the prey list is because Mosasaurus could not have actively hunted land dwelling animals, but if a carcass were to present itself there's nothing to suggest it would leave the free meal. 31.151.8.113 (talk) 23:27, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Unless the land-living dino was crossing a body of water large enough for a mosasaur to be hunting in - as has been shown in a few paleo-documentaries. 50.111.50.132 (talk) 05:55, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eating a theropod? 

message: Amazing expansion! But I'm not a fan of the image titled "A lethal attack on a Mosasaurus by Tylosaurus has been documented." (why Tylosaurus rather than Hainosaurus, BTW?) This shows a cephalopod being eaten by Hainosaurus, which is rather confusing when the caption talks about an attack on Mosasaurus. I suspect this goes beyond one-step-removed-from-subject illustration (like the sperm whales) to two-step-removed, and would suggest leaving it out. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 15:36, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably something that needs to be cleaned up in the Wikipedia articles very soon, but Hainosaurus as a genus seems to no longer be valid and the bernardi species has been integrated into Tylosaurus for a while by now. As a result, 'Hainosaurus' bernardi as it is labeled would still represent Tylosaurus. I placed in the image with the sole intent of representing a restoration of bernardi in general; the squid just so happened to be on the only suitable restoration in commons. But I can see how someone would get confused about the context (I threw in the image mainly for aesthetic rather than contextual reasons), so I'll have it cut. Macrophyseter | talk 22:12, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Better to just show a skeleton, then? FunkMonk (talk) 21:21, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hainosaurus image 

message: May be of interest vis-a-vis footnote b...  Lythronaxargestes (talk | contribs) 19:45, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Good argument, but I would prefer to see how future papers do the spelling in response before making a change, given that the -ii spelling has become prevailing usage since Konishi. Macrophyseter | talk 02:26, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nomenclatural note on ''hoffmanni'' vs ''hoffmannii'' 

message: Although I recognize the undeniable editing work that this article offers in terms of description and additional information (to point that I had to use some to translate this article into French), I still have a small problem in regarding certain sources. Some of them are articles or even theses which can contain more than 100 pages, and I find it very frustrating that the sfn model is not used to show which page a particular statement comes from. This is something that I was able to avoid with my articles on Inostrancevia and Kronosaurus for example, so it is entirely possible to do it on Mosasaurus too I think. Amirani1746 (talk) 06:28, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sfn use for some sources ?