Template:Infobox fossil

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Lucy

File:Lucy Mexico.jpg
Catalog no.	AL 288-1
Common name	Lucy
Species	Australopithecus afarensis
Age	3.2 million years
Place discovered	Afar Depression, Ethiopia
Date discovered	24 November 1974
Discovered by	Donald Johanson

Usage

{{Infobox fossil}} may be used to summarize information about a fossil, and is usually placed at the top of an article. To use, copy and paste the blank template shown below into an article and fill in the desired fields.

Blank template with all parameters

{{Infobox fossil
| catalog number   = 
| common name	   = 
| image		   = 
| species	   = 
| age		   = 
| place discovered = 
| date discovered  = 
| discovered by	   = 
| footnotes	   = 
}}

Example

{{Infobox fossil
| image		   = Lucy_Mexico.jpg
| catalog number   = AL 288-1
| common name	   = Lucy
| species	   = ''[[Australopithecus afarensis]]''
| age		   = 3.2 million years
| place discovered = [[Afar Depression]], [[Ethiopia]]
| date discovered  = 24 November 1974
| discovered by	   = [[Donald Johanson]]
}}

Parameters

Image, common name, and footnotes are optional. All other fields listed above are required, but should be left blank if no data is available.

• image – optional – The image name must be given in the form Fossil Example.jpg or Fossil_Example.jpg; the Image: or File: prefixes must not be used. Image size is automatically determined by the infobox.
• catalog number – The fossil's catalog number.
• common name – optional – The fossil's common name. If used, the common name takes preference over the catalog number as the name appearing in bold at the top of the infobox. Otherwise, the catalog number is used.
• species – Use italics and the full species name, e.g. Australopithecus afarensis.
• age – Use the commonly accepted age of the fossil or a range in cases of uncertainty, e.g. 3.2 million years, 680,000–780,000 years.
• place discovered – Preferred format: city or region, sovereign state. Note: Do not add flag icons.
• date discovered – The complete date is preferred, e.g. 24 November 1974. Use the month-day-year format for fossils from parts of the world where the month precedes the day in a date.
• discovered by – The individual(s) who discovered the fossil.
• footnotes – optional – Notes about any of the infobox data.

Template Data

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Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
common name	common name	no description	Unknown	optional
catalog number	catalog number	no description	Unknown	optional
img	img	no description	Unknown	optional
image	image	no description	Unknown	optional
alt	alt	no description	Unknown	optional
caption	caption	no description	Unknown	optional
species	species	no description	Unknown	optional
age	age	no description	Unknown	optional
place discovered	place discovered	no description	Unknown	optional
date discovered	date discovered	no description	Unknown	optional
discovered by	discovered by	no description	Unknown	optional
footnotes	footnotes	no description	Unknown	optional

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