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Proceratosaurus
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The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 19, 2025 by Gog the Mild (talk) 19:39, 1 July 2025 (UTC)
Proceratosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived during the Middle Jurassic in what is now England. The holotype and only known specimen consists of a mostly complete skull with an accompanying lower jaw and a hyoid bone, found near Minchinhampton, a town in Gloucestershire. It was originally described as a species of Megalosaurus, M. bradleyi, in 1910, but was moved to its own genus in 1926. The genus was named for a supposed close relationship with Ceratosaurus, later shown to be erroneous, due to the presence of an incomplete cranial crest considered to resemble Ceratosaurus' nasal horn. Proceratosaurus is now considered to be one of the oldest members of Tyrannosauroidea (the broader group which includes the tyrannosaurids, including the famous Tyrannosaurus). During the Bathonian age when Proceratosaurus lived, Britain along with the rest of Western Europe formed a subtropical island archipelago, with contemporary dinosaurs including stegosaurs, Megalosaurus and Cetiosaurus. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): Nasutoceratops (13 May 2025) (most recent dinosaur) Pseudastacus (14 June) (most recent fossil organism). Hemiauchenia (talk) 13:41, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
- Main editors: Hemiauchenia, FunkMonk, A Cynical Idealist, IJReid
- Promoted: 28 June 2025
- Reasons for nomination: Recently promoted. My first FA (I did the majority of the work at the FA nom, and the author of the majority of the prose). Hemiauchenia (talk) 13:16, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
- Support as nominator. Hemiauchenia (talk) 13:16, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
- Support It doesn't fit neatly into any date that well, and there's often 1 animal (living or extant) article a month. Doesn't seem controversial. Harizotoh9 (talk) 02:58, 30 June 2025 (UTC)