Talk:List of vertebrate fauna of the Campanian stage

Article outlines
First of all thanks to everyone for their contributions and rectifications.

Since there are no explicit outlines for the creation of this kind of list I used the equivalent Maastrichtian article as well as the now deleted faunal lists that were originally included at geological stages' articles as proxy format. When I was preparing the article the general formatting procedure I used was: You may use this as guidelines if you want without any intent of being restrictive in any way as long as the community agrees and general wiki rules are followed.
 * Copy and paste the original list from the history of the geological stage's article.
 * Trim taxa out that are stately not found at the stage (f.e. exclusively Maastrichtian taxa like Quetzalcoatlus and Alamosaurus) while trying to be the least invasive as possible, did not remove any taxa from the original list without positive evidence that they were not found in the Campanian.
 * Add only cells of taxa (genera) that could positively be verified, by properly cited wikipedia articles and fossilworks, that were represented by Campanian-aged fossil evidence.
 * Add on the taxon (genus) column subsequent species that could be positively verified by fossil evidence as present during the stage (according to wiki articles' sources and fossilworks), as a rule of thumb did not add any genera that had not a named species identified within the Campanian fossil record unless a named species was identified from both preceding and succeeding geological stages and there was a representative fossil of the genus found in Campanian strata, but exceptions were made for the sake of visual and contextual representation of the diversity of certain taxa without particularly confident identification of their subtaxa at the lowest (species) level, like in the case of Chondrostei, Holostei and lungfishes.
 * The Presence column presents the full timespan of the listed genus, regardless of the timespan of the individual Campanian-aged species listed under it.
 * The Location column presents only the places (continents, countries, states, geological formations) where Campanian-aged fossils of said taxa have been found.

On a sidenote, I focused expanding the categories where there was a general trend that they would be relatively neglected in the original lists of the stages' articles (fish, amphibians, lepidosaurs and to a lesser extent ornithopods and birds) with the exception of mammals/mammaliaforms where I only made rudimentary trimming and additions, while more popularly edited categories like non-avian and non-ornithopod dinosaurs, pterosaurs were left only elementarily processed, so feel free to "go wild". Again, thank you all for the good start! Draco ignoramus sophomoricus (talk) 06:53, 27 February 2024 (UTC)