My full reworking of Wikipedia's Palaelodidae articles. This includes the genera Palaelodus, Megapaloelodus and Adelalopus as well as the family article that encompasses them all.
The reason for this mini-project is kinda funny. For some reason I don't remember I ended up realizing how the list of fossil flamingos on the main flamingo article was rather lacklustre and primarily redlinks, so I did all fossil flamingos I could find. And after that I went deeper down and did palaelodids, straight billed flamingos.
Obviously the individual articles vary in quality. Adelalopus is the worst one easily, there is only one paper really focusing on it and the remains aren't overly unique or interesting, nor are their implications besides clarifying the groups origin a little.
Megapaloelodus is more extensive, partially due to the large number of named species which I ended up trying to sort into a neat little list that clarifies where they all come from in a way that should be easier to read than originally. Sadly tho the genus is incredibly fragmentary so again, lacking a lot of fun stuff.
Palaelodus was the second one of the batch I did and arguably one of the best ones. It's well described, has a good chunk of literature under its belt, a lot of discussion given their behavior, diet, ecology in general and locomotion and its the only genus that has actual image material on Wikimedia (aided by the fact that after I finished Dimitry Bogdanov uploaded a live reconstruction). I'm pretty happy with it. If you wanna read more on this guy and don't feel like going to wikipedia, I wrote a post summarizing my edits on here as well.
Palaelodidae then is pretty much a no brainer. It was my first family-level article but since I had written about all three genera already it was really just a best-off. A basic summary of all the three prior pages. I ended up making a table for the genera here instead of just listing them since that allowed me to make easier subdivisions for the individual species. I used the list system later down for the range across the continents. The sources are largely a combination of the prior three (duh) with some minor additions mostly regarding indetermined remains that don't fit neatly into the names taxa.
