Talk:Dichobune

Nominator: PrimalMustelid (talk · contribs) 21:46, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

GA review

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Reviewer: IJReid (talk · contribs) 02:19, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

I'm going to attempt this as a comprehensive once-over and we will see how we get on from there. IJReid ^{{{T - C - D - R}}} 02:19, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

• Taxonomy
  • I think the first paragraphs are missing important details about provenance of the Cuvier species
  • "that he designated to the newly named artiodactyl genus" why not rephrase along the lines of naming the new genus Anoplotherium to which he referred multiple new species including A. minus
  • "which he said was known" we know he was the one who said it so this can be cut to "which was known"
  • "proving" bit strong of language, maybe "implying"?
  • "a jaw that he assigned to it" I would replace "it" with the "A. minus" since the topic could use some re-emphasizing
  • "hare-sized postcranial material" what material? Could be included in brackets
  • "redescribed a lower jaw and additional postcranial material assigned" either he re-described it (it was the same jaw), or it was additional material (new) so there's some confusion about the "and" and the qualtities (a second lower jaw? or "the" lower jaw?)
  • hare is not linked
  • "same terrestrial gracility" would it just be gracility since the two comparative animals are both terrestrial?
  • "formerly A. medium" maybe move this into brackets with an explanation of the "formerly" (split the species, synonyms, what)
  • "He said that its head is" should be "was" since the rest is past tense
  • "replacing the previous name A. minus." what justification for the replacement?
  • "He assigned it to the just named" this is underplaying it a bit, and could be merged with the previous sentence as "and for A. leporinum, A. murinum and A. obliquum he named the new Anoplotherium subgenus Dichobune"
  • "also considering Cainotherium to be a subgenus of the former" the "also" feels out of place, perhaps "with the [Anoplotherium subgenus?/genus] Cainotherium [moved/reranked] as a subgenus of the former"
  • "another source written within the same time range" might as well just say "a second volume of the same study"
  • Verify that there is no single year given for the sections of his 1848-1852 publications that could be used instead
  • "M. E. Robert who discovered it there;[11]" this feels like the end of a sentence, change the punctuation
  • " implied questioning of the placement" how do you imply questioning?
  • "latter genus established the subgenus Diplobune" the latter genus? he named the Dichobune subgenus Diplobune?
  • "but did not go into verifying the validity" "did not discuss the validity"?
  • "erected the species D. langii and D. pygmaea" for what material from where?
  • "reconfirmed the validities and placements" reconfirmed is an odd word to choose given the previous discussion about each species being questioned at some point
  • "but did not refute the validities" again, if he doesn't talk about the other species we can't imply he had opinions on them or no opinion on them
  • "to dental fossils from the French phosphorite" did he "add" the name "to" the dental fossils or did he "name" a variety "for" dental fossils
  • "D" langi is missing the period
  • "designated Cebochoerus siullus within the subgenus" designated within is an odd phrasing, maybe designated as or classified within
  • "assigned the same provisional name as well" the "as well" is redundant, but also an sp. declaration is not a provisional name it is a generic attribution with no species attribution
  • Link paraphyletic
  • "(although not all researchers agree that the Raoellidae is a dichobunoid family)" what is the citation for this?
  • "some of whom may even be polyphyletic" this implies that some of the paraphyletic families may be polyphyletic, which is not possible. I would suggest rewording the entire sentence
  • "species classified to Diacodexis " more like referred than "classified" to
  • "in both continents" we have already specified both NA and Europe, cut
  • I do think the entire paragraph on the earliest dichobunoids can be cut, there is no mention or relevance to the genus
  • "Members of both Europe and Asia" members from?
  • "and those of other dichobunid genera like" change to "and of" since the rest is redundant
  • "created a phylogenetic tree of the basal artiodactyls" reconstructed is the better word for "created"
  • "As seen in the above phylogeny" I would move this up to be part of the same paragraph to space out the cladograms, and cut this sentence opener
  • "defined as the plesiomorphic species" it was identified as, there is no definition of the species forcing it to be plesiomorphic
  • "named D. aff. robertiana had even more" the aff. means it is not named as such, but is a specimen with potential affinities to the species. "even" is a weasel word that should be cut

• Description
  • "In terms of cranial features, the" just "The" is fine here
  • "Several skull specimens" why not just "Several skulls"
  • "is a tympanic wing" what is ?
  • "evident by front foot bone evidence" redundancy
  • "been illustrated by Georges Cuvier as noted by the German palaeontologist Max Schlosser in 1886" I assume this is relevant because the bones themselves are now lost? If so, add that in
  • There is lots of use of "small-sized" or "large-sized" why not just "smaller" and "larger"?

• Palaeobiology
  • "morphology type" a morphology is a type, remove "type"
  • Nothing available other than feeding? Some comments on cursiorality?

• Palaeoecology
  • "arrived in western" in western Europe?
  • There is a lot of information here on general trends, which I like, but not as much about anything other than mammals

• Lede
  • Link artiodactyl
  • "Its existence in the" perhaps "Its survival into the"
  • "a dichobunid that lasted up to the Late Oligocene and briefly coexisted with it." maybe swap so its chronological "that briefly coexisted with it and survived up to the Late Oligocene"

• Images and References
  • I'm not sure of the utility of mentioning years of illustration
  • If specimen numbers or institutions are available these would be great
  • Could be some more images moved to the left side of the article?
  • Reference spot check of 19: matches content with suggested rewordings above
  • Reference spot check of 34: matches content