I just became curator maybe 2 days ago with the hope of fixing and adding more prehistoric sea creature species to Inaturalist. I understand there are much more important things to fix, but I’ve got plenty of time. I’m also more adding species/genera that have enough information that reconstructions…

Masracetus is separated from everything else because i can’t put Dorudontinae under Basilosauridae even though that’s where it belongs. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/918573-Masracetus

[image] zoology123: Basilosauridae Not to discourage you, but I think you need to interface with the respective taxon curators under mammals, reptiles, fish, possibly birds etc that you want to add things to. Even though your species are extinct, all these areas and others are locked taxa, w…

But what if they don’t wanna waste time fixing extinct creatures? I’m fully willing to do the work but these “problems” are getting in the way.

Unless they are willing to assign you as a taxa curator for all these areas, there is not too much that can be done.

Well how do i apply to become the curator of extinct sea creatures?

I for whatever reason couldn’t even add this species to its genus. So its just floating free from the taxonomic tree. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/918534-Ptychodus-mortoni

Only an iNat staff member can assign taxa curation roles, you’ll need to reach out to them.

Why am i able to do everything right with https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/333781-Dinocaridida Iv’e been able to add 5 genera, a few families etc with no trouble.

Because not all families of life are locked, and arthropods fall under this. Areas not locked can be edited by any curator If you have not done so, I would suggest reading the curator guide https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/curator+guide#changes

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zoology123 August 7, 2019, 6:55pm 2

I accidentally posted without finishing. so im still typing.

Finished now.

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