Talk:Elasmosaurus

message: OK. I was creating an Elasmosur link from the trivia part of the Giganotosaurus page (to do with Transformers), and I tried to edit the page by getting rid of a picture of a bird that was there for some strange reason. Now the paleobox seems to have disappeared and no matter what I do it won't come back. It wasn't my intention to vandalise anything but I have completely screwe up the page and have no idea how to fix it. Help, anyone? SMegatron 09:03, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The caption for the [skeletal image] appears to be copy/pasted from http://www.oceansofkansas.com/Eplatyurus.html MikeyMoose (talk) 13:16, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Then just re-word it. FunkMonk (talk) 20:54, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy/Paste? 

message: Cryptoclidus weights about 4 elasmosaurus. Cryptoclidus should be the largest plesiosaur, while elasmosaurus is the longest. Dinosaur Fan (talk) 08:21, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Please cite your sources. However, on the subject of size, I have removed the mention in the text regarding the precise size and weight of Elasmosaurus, on account of the source being unreliable. Lythronaxargestes (talk) 00:49, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong title 

message: I am in the middle of copy-editing the article. I know I should probably leave the question of links to the writers or, later, the reviewers, but I do notice words that may puzzle non-experts, so I try to link them. Since this relates to an important article, Vertebra, I'm going to ping  for his input. In the section Elasmosaurus#Vertebrae I saw the word "centra". I thought I'd try to find an article, or section of an article, to which I could link this word. I entered "centra" in the search bar, and it led to Centra, an article about a convenience store chain in Ireland. At the top of the article it said, "For other uses, see Centra (disambiguation)". So I clicked on that, and it led to a list of a few things. I clicked on Centra (anatomy), and it led to Vertebra. I did a "find" search for the word "centra", and it appears nowhere in the article. The only word that does appear is "central". I'm wondering:
(a) should the word "centra" appear somewhere in the article Vertebra, and, if not,
(b) should "centra" appear at all in the dinosaur article? FunkMonk, is "centra" a word that used exclusively in paleontology? or
(c) should I not worry about linking "centra" at all?
Besides that, I see that the word "body" (and, later, "bodies") is defined and used often in Vertabra, so I think it would make sense to link the word "bodies" to Vertebra. I also wonder why "bodies" needs to be in quotation marks.  – Corinne (talk) 17:26, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Centra is the plural of centrum, which is in the section Vertebra#Structure. As for why "body" is in quotes, it's just an approximate layman term, because the technical definition of a vertebral body includes more than just the centrum. Lythronaxargestes (talk | contribs) 17:56, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, centra is centrum, like fora and forum, and "body" is a common name for this. It is the main part of a vertebra. FunkMonk (talk) 18:01, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Centra 

message: This article suggests only one elasmosaur fossil exists.  I do not see the Courtenay, Canada Elasmosaur mentioned.
See e.g. this news article
https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/courtenay-curator-pushes-elasmosaur-for-b-c-s-first-ever-provincial-fossil-1.4179405
Can someone add this to the article?
:"Elasmosaur" usually refers to the larger grouping (Elasmosauridae), it is not clear if Elasmosaurus itself is meant. We would need to wait for a scientific paper anyways, as news articles on paleontological topics are often not reliable. --Jens Lallensack (talk) 08:53, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I did look for info on this back when we wrote the article, that specimen is an unnamed elasmosaur (nicknamed the Puntledge River elasmosaur, you can Google for more info), not necessarily Elasmosaurus itself. We have a Commons picture of a cast here and the fossil skull: FunkMonk (talk) 05:54, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I've been to courtenay and seen the fossil, its okay, and I believe its currently being described, and I don't think it will end up being Elasmosaurus itself. IJReid  23:59, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elasmoraurus discovered in 1988, Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada 

message: Pinging  for discussion: I remain unconvinced by the estimate of a 2.8 MT body weight, which is ultimately sourced to Everhart (2000). Everhart applied the result to a 9 m elasmosaurid in 2000, and then to a 10 m elasmosaurid in 2001, but either way these are not specific estimates for Elasmosaurus and only for indeterminate elasmosaurids from the Pierre Shale. Yes, Elasmosaurus is from the Pierre Shale, but so is Styxosaurus. Hence, I don't think that these estimates can be used. Lythronaxargestes (talk | contribs) 06:15, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weight estimate