PaleoGeekSquared

Hi! My name is Alexander Vieira, otherwise known as PaleoGeek, though sometimes (like on Wikipedia) I go by my other pseudonym PaleoGeekSquared. I'm a Venezuelan illustrator and animator based in Cardiff, Wales. My work primarily focuses on nature illustration, palaeoart, and scientific journalism of palaeontology. I joined Wikipedia's palaeontology and dinosaur WikiProjects to collaborate towards improving articles on prehistoric animals (such as non-avian dinosaurs), and thus help promote a more modern understanding of ancient life to the general public. My experience on the site has been incredibly enriching and educational. I'm quite proud of the contributions I've been able to make, and I encourage others to do the same.

Are you a palaeontology nerd, dinosaur lover, or biology student fascinated with the science of extinct organisms? If you can relate to any of these niches, and share my love for learning and teaching at the same time, then I highly recommend learning to edit Wikipedia and joining the WikiProject Dinosaurs and/or WikiProject Palaeontology communities. You could expand articles on poorly-covered prehistoric taxa; submit your own artwork to the dinosaur or palaeoart review pages; and review palaeo articles for good or featured candidacy or help promote them to said status yourself. Wikipedia is for everybody and anybody to edit after all! And in the golden age of fossil finds and scientific communication of palaeontology we're now in, there's never been a better time to be a Wikipedia editor.

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Current Projects

As of now, my primary focus on Wikipedia is improving and expanding articles related to the Spinosauridae, a unique and beautifully diverse family of theropod dinosaurs that evolved to become hyper-specialised for semiaquatic lifestyles. My fascination with them stems from a number of reasons, such as their mysterious evolutionary history and exciting yet also troubled history of discovery, as well as their incredibly well-adapted biology for aquatic, yet also generalist niches. This underrated and poorly understood animal group truly deserves more attention in my opinion, and I am here to help that happen.

• Goal itinerary:
  • Help get all spinosaurid articles to Good Article Status
  • Help get most spinosaurid articles to Featured Article Status
  • Help make Spinosauridae a Good or Featured Topic
• Progress:
  • Spinosauridae
    • Camarillasaurus
    • Iberospinus
    • Baryonychinae
      • Baryonyx
      • Suchosaurus
      • Ceratosuchopsini
        • Ceratosuchops
        • Cristatusaurus
        • Riparovenator
        • Suchomimus (CURRENT FOCUS)
    • Spinosaurinae
      • Ichthyovenator
      • Irritator
      • Siamosaurus
      • Vallibonavenatrix
      • Spinosaurini
        • Oxalaia
        • Sigilmassasaurus
        • Spinosaurus

Planned/alternate projects

Sometimes I work on and create articles for the Simple English Wikipedia, you can check out My User Page there as well. Articles I want to get to Good or Featured status sometime in the future: Dinosaurs: Torvosaurus Dracoraptor Pantydraco Leaellynasaura Demoiselle Crane Araripe Manakin Other animals: Mawsonia Onchopristis Siberian Husky Geology: Alcântara Formation People: Alexander Kellner Varavudh Suteethorn Nigel Marven Oesch's die Dritten

Contributions

Expansions

Article Contribution Additional Info: Irritator Created historical skull diagram and life restoration, new size chart, fossil arm skeletal, and life restoration of head; added nine other images. Expanded beyond C-class to B-class, GA-class, DYK, FA-class, and TFA. Created Postcrania, Aquatic habits, and Taphonomy subsections. GA DYK FA Oxalaia Created restoration, added maxilla to skeletal diagram, added four other images. Copyedited and expanded beyond stub, helped become B-class, GA-class, DYK, FA-class, and TFA. Created Description, Discovery and naming, Classification, and Palaeoecology sections. GA DYK FA Ichthyovenator Created skeletal, size comparison, restoration, and pelvis and spine comparison, added four other images. Expanded beyond start class to C-class, B-class, GA-class, DYK, and FA-class. Created Palaeobiology, and Palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography sections. GA DYK FA Siamosaurus Expanded beyond stub to C-class, B-class, GA-class, and FA-class. Created seven images and added nine more. Created History of discovery, Description, Classification, and Palaeoenvironment and Palaeobiogeography sections. GA DYK FA Cristatusaurus Created skeletal diagram with size comparison, and ontogeny diagram, added one other image. Expanded beyond stub to B-class, GA-class, and DYK. Created Description, Classification, and Paleoecology sections. GA DYK Ostafrikasaurus Created fossil illustration, life restoration, added five other images. Expanded beyond Start-class to C-class, then B-class. Created Evolution, Palaeobiology and Palaeoecology sections. Spinosauridae Expanded lead, description, classification, palaeobiology, and palaeoecology. Created History of discovery section. Created size chart, fossil map, and neural spine diagram. Copyedited. Flipped/made images for cladogram. New subsections. Added Timeline of genera descriptions. Former GAN Suchomimus Expanded all sections and added more images. Alexander W. A. Kellner Tracked down two free images on subject and added two images on animals named. Copyedited and added citations to various sentences. Thalassodromeus Created size chart. Some copyediting. Expanded lead, Palaeobiology, and Palaeoecology sections. Afrovenator Created Afrovenatorinae size chart and more accurate restoration. Copyedited and renamed sections. Suchosaurus‎ Expanded lead and created Description and Palaeoecology sections. Copyedits and added new image. Pyroraptor Fixes to lead. Opened Discovery and naming section. Changes & fixes to Description section. Neuquenraptor Created illustration and size chart. Correct section names. Added some info. Alectrosaurus General copyedits, created head restoration. Oesch's die Dritten Added infobox, expanded lead and moved some information to lead, cited info in lead, renamed section. Xixiasaurus Created size comparison and copyedited. Proa valdearinnoensis‎ Some expansion, fixed broken reference. Siberian Husky Fixed duplinks, linked technical terms, added info on merle coat pattern. "Sinopliosaurus" fusuiensis Merged with Siamosaurus Megalosauridae Duplicate links.

Articles created

Article Contribution Additional Info: Atlanticopristis Created article with Description, Discovery and naming, Classification, and Paleoceology sections. Most sources on the taxa added. Created restoration and tooth diagram. Helped become GA-Class and DYK. GA DYK Varavudh Suteethorn Created article with biography and list of taxa named and described. Added three images. DYK Created during the 2018 Wikipedia Asian Month Ankylorhiza Created article with Discovery and naming and Description sections Created life reconstruction DYK Xenomorphia Created article with general description and information. Uploaded fossil image from publication. Created for The Afenogaster, who pointed out here that the poor thing was missing an article! Spinosaurini (Redirect) Xinlong Formation (Redirect) Onchopristis numidus (Redirect)

Articles reviewed
Good Article Nominees: Puertasaurus Featured Article Candidates: Thalassodromeus, Brachiosaurus, Lythronax Peer Reviews: Baryonyx, Orangutan

Awards

The Dinosaur Barnstar For your quest to improve spinosaur related articles, and to encourage you to continue, here's what appears to be a deformed tyrannosaur! FunkMonk (talk) 08:58, 28 September 2018 (UTC) Great article creation in Varavudh Suteethorn! Keep it up! Please add categories if and when you get the time, though. Regards, SshibumXZ (talk · contribs). 06:10, 5 November 2018 (UTC) The Featured Article Medal By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this special, very exclusive award created just for we few, we happy few, this band of brothers who have shed sweat, tears, and probably blood in order to be able to proudly claim "I too have taken an article to Featured status" Gog the Mild (talk) 21:12, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Images created

(My to do list)

Diagrams

Spinosauridae fossil map Spinosauridae neural spine sails Sawfish "teeth" comparison Historical Irritator skull diagram and life restoration Cristatusaurus ontogeny Cristatusaurus skeletal and size comparison Forelimb diagram of MN 4819-V, a possible Angaturama specimen Siamosaurus holotype tooth Tail vertebrae of "Phuwiang spinosaurid B" Ostafrikasaurus holotype tooth Ichthyovenator skeletal and size comparison Partial spinosaurid skeleton from Thailand, possibly from Siamosaurus

Photographs
One of my Lissachatina fulica pets, who sadly passed away

Adaptations of others works
Romualdo Formation environment restoration Cristatusaurus restoration

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