A survey of dinosaur diversity by clade, age, place of discovery and year of description

• Main Author: Taylor, Michael
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Dinosauria; genera; diversity; phylogeny; biogeography; biostratigraphy; Kimmeridgian; Morrison Formation; Argentina; Canada; Morrison; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1983/87e2fa4c-dee2-407e-843d-ccc57a8c55d2; https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publications/87e2fa4c-dee2-407e-843d-ccc57a8c55d2; https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.434v1; https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/files/38821424/peerj_preprints_434.pdf

Dinosaur diversity is analyzed in terms of the number of valid genera within each major clade, Mesozoic age, place of discovery and year of description. Aves (Archaeopteryx + Neornithes) is excluded. Nomina nuda and nomina dubia are not counted. The results show 451 valid dinosaurian genera at the e...