Talk:Desmatochelys padillai

Genus vs species level
, re your comment in the last edit; I would say it's better to keep the species level entries, obviously with the need for filling the red link for D. lowi and the need to expand the genus level article, but New Zealand and central Colombia are (and were, back in the Cretaceous) so far apart, with until today no fossil finds in between, that it is important to highlight those different species of turtles. The genus level article should reflect the differences and similarities between the two described species. Tisquesusa (talk) 09:38, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
 * It should be irrelevant how far apart two taxa lived, what matters is how much can be written about them. In the majority of cases, prehistoric species are better off being treated in the same genus article, since so little can be written about them (due to lack of knowledge). This has been the standard at the palaeontology project and the dinosaur project before it. There are some exceptions, such as woolly mammoth, but they are of course much more famous, with entire books written about just them. FunkMonk (talk) 16:08, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge seems appropriate; this paleo-species article is less of a stubby non-necessity than most similar cases, but the material would still be more useful in the genus article. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 00:27, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ Klbrain (talk) 16:00, 29 December 2021 (UTC)