Template:Did you know nominations/Fossil Grove


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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 20:49, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

Fossil Grove

 * ... that eleven Lepidodendron stump fossils were discovered in the Fossil Grove when workers were excavating a quarry? Source: "... and while employed last winter in cutting a road along the hollow of the quarry, the workmen exposed the strata in which a number of fossil trees were found to be embedded." (Notes on a Section of Carboniferous Strata...)
 * ALT1:... that during World War II, a bomb damaged the 325 million year old Fossil Grove? Source: "During WWII, a bomb blast damaged the roof and one of the stumps ... deposited during the Carboniferous Period about 325 million years ago." (A Geological Guide to the Fossil Grove)
 * Reviewed: NA >5 DYK

5x expanded by Pagliaccious (talk). Self-nominated at 14:42, 6 September 2018 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg expanded and of right size. written neutrally. no copyvio detected. tag should be fixed up. hook cited and faithful to source (I'll take the first one...). Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:34, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Sentence finished and clarified. Must have forgotten to go back and fix it. Pagliaccious (talk) 22:54, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg ok gud ta gae Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:19, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg Hi, I came by to promote this, and added some cites to sentences that seemed pertinent to the DYK hook. But the number of eleven fossilized stumps only appears in the lead, without a cite. Yoninah (talk) 19:49, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I've added a new reference to the lead. Pagliaccious (talk) 20:08, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Thank you. Restoring tick per Casliber's review. Yoninah (talk) 20:46, 25 September 2018 (UTC)