Talk:List of ornithopod type specimens

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Useful code (please don't archive this section)

Here is a blank table whose code can be conveniently copy-pasted in the main article when needed. I've used internal notes to label the columns each cell in the row belong to. Please don't archive this section heading as it should be available to editors perpetually to ease adding to the list. Abyssal (talk) 01:29, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Species	Genus	Nickname	Catalogue Number	Institution	Age	Unit	Country	Notes	Images
									The "Trachodon mummy".

Question regarding non-ornithopod ornithischians

During my process of adding missing geologic and institutional information to the list, I realized that there are several entries on this list that are not members of the clade Ornithopoda. For instance, there are thescelosaurids such as Albertadromeus and Orodromeus, basal neornithischians such as Yandusaurus and Haya, and other ornithischians such as Hypsilophodon. Should these entries remain in this list, or should a new list be created to accomodate for ornithischians that are not marginocephalians, ornithopods, or thyreophorans? CryolophosaurusEllioti (talk) 02:21, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

I've given it some time, and I will be removing the following genera and adding them to a currently in-progress list of other ornithischian type specimens. I have included the reasoning for these removals in parentheses next to each of the taxa:

-Albertadromeus (Thescelosaurid)

-Changchunsaurus (Thescelosaurid or jeholosaurid)

-Drinker (Other neornithischian)

-Haya (Jeholosaurid)

-Hypsilophodon (Sister to Cerapoda)

-Koreanosaurus (Thescelosaurid)

-Leaellynasaura (other neornithschian)

-Orodromeus (Thescelosaurid)

-Oryctodromeus (Thescelosaurid)

-Thescelosaurus (Thescelosaurid)

-Yandusaurus (Basal neornithschian

-Zephyrosaurus (Thescelosaurid) CryolophosaurusEllioti (talk) 02:45, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

General Format Improvements

It's not clear to me that the columns "Genus" and "Nickname" add anything of value to this page, and in fact they make the table too wide to view on a single monitor. The genus names are all listed in the "Species" column, which could be renamed "Latin Name", "Scientific Name", or "Binomial Name", and not a single holotype listed has a listed nickname. I propose that these columns should be deleted and a new column, which list the skeletal elements included in the holotype should be added, since that information is mostly absent from the table. Alternatively, this could simply be added to the "Notes" column. This wouldn't require any new sources since a description of the holotypic elements is in the papers describing the specimens. Lastly, the "Country" column is mostly irrelevant, since very few stratigraphic units exist across national borders, and those that do could have their location specified in the "Unit" or "Institution" column. --A Cynical Idealist (talk) 11:30, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

Okay, I've greatly improved the List of marginocephalian type specimens and the List of thyreophoran type specimens using the format changes that I suggested above. The lack of response and lack of activity on this page outside of my own, and one other user's, edits on the page over the (nearly) two months since my original post has led me to conclude there is no dissent for this format change, and I plan to do so at my earliest availability.--A Cynical Idealist (talk) 03:43, 11 July 2023 (UTC)