Talk:Aurimys

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Review: June 1, 2026. (Reviewed version).

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GA review

Latest comment: 4 months ago4 comments2 people in discussion

Passed. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:18, 1 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Aurimys/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: An anonymous username, not my real name (talk · contribs) 01:31, 28 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 14:57, 31 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

Comments

Interesting article on a 'new' species.

Minor comments

~~You might like to wikilink paleontologist.~~

Done

~~Not sure I see the need for "would have had" when "had" is all that is needed.~~

Fixed

~~"shed more information on" seems tangled, should be "shed more light on".~~

Yeah, I seem to have been drifting between metaphorical and literal speak.

Fixed

xeros just means "dry" in Greek.

They define it as arid in their paper. Should I perhaps say "arid or dry"?

OK, dry is the basic meaning.

Images

PeerJ material is CC-by-4.0 (i.e. images licensed compatibly with Commons) so we should copy directly from the Samuels paper [1], with attribution:

~~A cladogram showing the phylogeny of Aurimys with respect to its nearest neighbours~~

~~The image of the skull and jawbones.~~

Since the article will be much stronger with these images, these can be taken as mandatory under the GAN coverage of "the main points" criterion.

Both have been added. Fantastic catch!

Super.

You might like to include an image of an extant member of Dipodomyinae like a kangaroo rat for comparison.

Sources

The sources used are scientific and highly relevant, including the species description.

Spot-checks: [1] - checked 5 of the multiple claims, all ok; [2] ok; [3] is paywalled but looks correct from abstract; [4] ok.

Summary

Other than the inclusion of images from the original description, I have no major comments on the paper, so I expect to see it at GA very shortly. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:57, 31 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

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