Talk:Diplobune

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A fact from Diplobune appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 October 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the three-toed species of Diplobune (fossils pictured) were mammals of the order of "even-toed ungulates"?

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Lightburst talk 14:07, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Illustrations of the front foot (A) and hind foot (B) of Diplobune quercyi.

... that unlike other "even-toed ungulates", all species of the European Paleogene mammal Diplobune (Diplobune quercyi pictured) were entirely three-toed? Source: Bipedal browsing adaptations of the unusual Late Eocene–earliest Oligocene tylopod Anoplotherium (Artiodactyla, Mammalia)
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Created by PrimalMustelid (talk). Self-nominated at 13:50, 19 September 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Diplobune; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

General eligibility:

New enough:
Long enough:
Other problems:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: QPQ not required Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:42, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Hawkeye7 and PrimalMustelid: WP:DYKCRIT The hook fact should be cited in the article, no later than the end of the sentence it appears in. I can promote after this is done. Lightburst (talk) 16:16, 27 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Lightburst: Sorry, I'm having trouble understanding. I cited in the limbs paragraph, "Unlike Anoplotherium where one species (A. commune) is didactyl (two-toed) as opposed to all other species which are tridactyl (three-toed), all species of Diplobune are tridactyl." Do you want me to mention artiodactyls as a whole in that sentence? PrimalMustelid (talk) 17:01, 27 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Lightburst: Pinging again in case you hadn't seen my previous comment. PrimalMustelid (talk) 12:14, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the ping and sorry for the hold up. I see it now, the word use was different than our hook but it says Unlike typical "even-toed" artiodactyls and Anoplotherium where one species (A. commune) is didactyl (two-toed) as opposed to all other species which are tridactyl (three-toed), all species of Diplobune are tridactyl.[29] Lightburst (talk) 14:06, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Literature search

Hello. Can anyone help me find digital literature on the topic?

Sudre. J. 1983. Interpretation de la denture et description des elements du squelette appendiculaire de l'espece Diplobune minor (Filhol 1877): apports a la connaissance de l'anatomie des Anoplotheriinae Bonaparte 1850; pp. 439-458 in E. Buffetaut, J. M. Mazin, and E. Salmon (eds.), Actes du Symposium Paleontologique. G. Cuvier, Montbeliard.

Abusch-Siewert S. 1989. Bemerkungen zu den Anoplotherien (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) der Pariser Gipse. Munchner Geowissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen (A) 15: 55–78.

Dor M. 1938. Sur la biologie de l’Anoplotherium. (L’Anoplotherium etait-il aquatique?). Mammalia 2: 43–48.

Thanks in advance. Arctodus-simus (talk) 22:43, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, for anyone wondering, I sent the user pdfs for two sources already. PrimalMustelid (talk) 23:04, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

Passed. Wolverine XI ^{(talk to me)} 13:38, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:Diplobune/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: PrimalMustelid (talk · contribs)

Reviewer: Wolverine XI (talk · contribs) 06:48, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Will get to this later today. Wolverine XI ^{(talk to me)} 06:48, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like you'll be around for reviewing anoplotheriid articles, eh? Well, hope you'll be around for Dacrytherium's review sometime, heh. On a serious note, thanks for reviewing this. PrimalMustelid (talk) 08:50, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, I'll only be around to review this article. I'm a busy man with things to do. Wolverine XI ^{(talk to me)} 15:21, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewing now. Wolverine XI ^{(talk to me)} 08:05, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Review

For the first sentence, remove endemic western European, then start a new sentence It lived from the late Eocene...
- Separated into different sentences. PrimalMustelid (talk) 12:01, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
erected? Funny choice of words
- Perhaps, but it's a standard term for creating a taxon. PrimalMustelid (talk) 12:01, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
because he thought that it was Wrong choice of words, please rephrase
- Changed to "based on his hypothesis of the taxon being..." PrimalMustelid (talk) 12:01, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
promoted to genus Promoted?
- Changed to "elevated." PrimalMustelid (talk) 12:01, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
there are today today => currently
- Implemented. PrimalMustelid (talk) 12:01, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Diplobune was an evolutionarily derived medium to large-sized anoplotheriid with shared similarities to the sister taxon Anoplotherium, the differences Semicolon
- Done. PrimalMustelid (talk) 12:01, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
hint towards a life => suggests a life
- Done. PrimalMustelid (talk) 12:01, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
for the purpose of climbing them => for climbing
- Changed. PrimalMustelid (talk) 12:01, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
He noticed that the inner mounds of the molars of a species Of a species doesn't make sense here.
- Changed to "of the studied species." PrimalMustelid (talk) 12:01, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
that he felt We don't care what he felt. Rephrase this please.
- Changed to "Because of the molar morphologies being similar to those of..." PrimalMustelid (talk) 12:01, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
For the section "skull", if you don't have an image of Diplobune, please don't show skulls of other groups.
- Removed, not the biggest fan though since the skull of Anoplotherium is similar enough and none of the Diplobune skull images are available for CC licensing/public domain. PrimalMustelid (talk) 12:01, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Slightly shorten the sections on "skull", "limbs" and "brain"
- Cut down on some less important details in the three subsections. The "limbs" section is long still, but I believe the information I left for morphologies and articulation are important for the "no analogue" component of Diplobune and the arboreal hypothesis stemming from its anatomy. PrimalMustelid (talk) 12:01, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Please remove the image of Anoplotherium in "Late Eocene"
- I don't think it's much problematic since readers may prefer having a contemporary fauna image being displayed. PrimalMustelid (talk) 12:01, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
References look typical for a Paleontology article

OK, PrimalMustelid; I am done. Wolverine XI ^{(talk to me)} 08:43, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Implemented most of your suggestions. PrimalMustelid (talk) 12:01, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.