Talk:Rapetosaurus

This is a very good article on a relatively obscure dinosaur. It contains so much information that some of it could be moved to Nemegtosauridae, which now is a redirect to Titanosauridae.


 * Hi, Phlebas. I wouldn't call one of the most important finds in the Titanosauria taxon "obscure" just because it's not one the headline-grabbing giants. And please don't arbitrarily change taxa without providing a reference. I was careful to refer to say titanosaur when I meant Titanosauria, and nemegtosaurid when I meant Nemegtosauridae. Aside from a comment that the nemegtosaurids belong to a family within Titanosauria, the article doesn't discuss Nemegtosauridae at all. And even if it did, there isn't much to move... at least a paragraph or two would need to stay here, summarizing the nemegtosaurid article. 68.81.231.127 19:44, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Quotes a bit 'odd' - queries
I like the direct quotes, given in this article, from Katrina Curry Rogers. However, the one: "We dug into the hillside, and the more you dug, the more bones we found" seems desperately ungrammatical. Is it accurate? If so, it will have to remain in that form, grammatical or not! Another: "Rapeto is the name of a mischievous, mythical giant in Malagasy folklore, rather like our Paul Bunyan" implies that she was Canadian? Is that correct, or was Paul Bunyan general to North America? - Ballista 08:34, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Paul Bunyan is well-known even south of the 49th parallel; the quote is highly ungrammatical, but is an exact quote from the original article. Guess she (Kristina Curry Rogers, BTW) was pretty excited. ;) -- Firsfron of Ronchester 08:43, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Guessed as much - will have to stay. Yes, I suppose she would be excited. - Ballista 16:18, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Wrong Image Used?
I'm no dinosaur expert, so I didn't feel comfortable making the edit on my own, but the image titled "Adult and Juvenile" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rapetosaurus_and_juvenile.jpg) is actually a picture of a juvenile rapetosaurus and an apatosaurus. Unless there's some controversy about the classification of the apatosaurus perhaps being a full-grown rapetosaurus, I feel like this image should be removed, or at least have its title changed. It's actually a different angle of the same specimen used at the top of the page. You can clearly see the difference in the bone structure of the vertebrae and pelvis in the top picture. Erciesielski (talk) 02:34, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Yep, this is the case, so I removed it. Thank you for the correction! J. Spencer (talk) 02:22, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Even if the file is wrongly named, the image still shows the Rapetosaurus holotype from a unique angle, so I re-added it with a new caption. FunkMonk (talk) 09:47, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

pronunciation
ra-pe-TOO-saurus? why too and not to? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.182.130.241 (talk) 20:38, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Because it's not supposed to be words, its supposed to be sounds, please correct me if I'm wrong because i'm not understanding you very well--50.195.51.9 (talk) 19:13, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

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