Palaeontology Publications

6th May 2008

Michael P. Taylor
Palaeobiology Research Group,
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Portsmouth,
Portsmouth PO1 3QL,
United Kingdom
<dino@miketaylor.org.uk>

Published Papers

• Taylor, Michael P., and Darren Naish. 2007. An unusual new neosauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Hastings Beds Group of East Sussex, England. Palaeontology 50 (6): 1547-1564. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00728.x
           [PDF] [Abstract] [Abstract at Palaeontology]
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• Taylor, Michael P. 2007. Phylogenetic definitions in the pre-PhyloCode era; implications for naming clades under the PhyloCode. PaleoBios 27 (1): 1-6.
           [PDF] [Abstract] [Abstract at PaleoBios]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2006. Dinosaur diversity analysed by clade, age, place and year of description. pp. 134-138 in Paul M. Barrett and Susan E. Evans (eds.), Ninth international symposium on Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems and biota, Manchester, UK. Cambridge Publications. Natural History Museum, London, UK. 187 pp.
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• Taylor, Michael P., and Darren Naish. 2005. The Phylogenetic Taxonomy of Diplodocoidea (Dinosauria: Sauropoda). PaleoBios 25 (2): 1-7.
           [PDF] [Abstract] [Abstract at PaleoBios]

Papers In Press

• Taylor, Michael P., Paul Upchurch, Adam M. Yates, Mathew J. Wedel and Darren Naish. In press. Sauropoda. pp. XXX-YYY in Kevin de Queiroz, Philip D. Cantino and Jacques A. Gauthier (eds.), Phylonyms: a Companion to the PhyloCode. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. ZZZ pp.
• Taylor, Michael P., Paul Upchurch, Adam M. Yates, Mathew J. Wedel and Darren Naish. In press. Sauropodomorpha. pp. XXX-YYY in Kevin de Queiroz, Philip D. Cantino and Jacques A. Gauthier (eds.), Phylonyms: a Companion to the PhyloCode. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. ZZZ pp.

Conference Abstracts and Presentations

Dinosaurs: A Historical Perspective 2008
Michael P. Taylor. 2008. The evolution of sauropod dinosaurs from 1841 to 2008. pp. 15-17 in: Richard Moody, Eric Buffetaut, David Martill and Darren Naish (eds.), Dinosaurs (and other extinct saurians): A Historical Perspective abstracts, Geologists' Association, History of Geology Group, London, England. 71 pp.
         [Abstract] [Slides]

Cal Paleo 2008 (talk by Matt Wedel)
Wedel, Mathew J., and Michael P. Taylor. 2008. Did sauropods really decline in the Early Cretaceous of North America? PaleoBios 28 (1, supplement): 8.
         [Abstract] [Slides]

Progressive Palaeontology 2007
Taylor, Michael P. 2007. Diversity of sauropod dinosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous Wealden Supergroup of southern England. p. 23 in Graeme T. Lloyd (ed.), Progressive Palaeontology 2007, Thursday 12th-Saturday 14th April, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol. 38 pp.
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Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota 2006
Taylor, M. P. 2006. Dinosaur diversity analysed by clade, age, place and year of description. p. 182 in Paul M. Barrett and Susan E. Evans (eds.), Ninth international symposium on Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems and biota, Manchester, UK. Cambridge Publications. Natural History Museum, London, UK. 187 pp.
         [Abstract] [Slides not yet available]

Progressive Palaeontology 2006
Taylor, Michael P. 2006. An unusual new neosauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Hastings Beds Group of East Sussex, England. p. 17 in Anonymous (ed.), Abstract book: Progressive Palaeontology 2006, Cambridge (England), 22-23 June 2006. 28 pp.
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SVPCA 2005
Taylor, Michael P. 2005. Sweet seventy-five and never been kissed: the Natural History Museum's Tendaguru brachiosaur. p. 25 in Paul M. Barrett (ed.), Abstracts volume for 53rd Symposium of Vertebrae Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, The Natural History Museum, London, 7th-9th September 2005. 41 pp.
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Progressive Palaeontology 2005
Taylor, Michael P. 2005. Upper limits on the mass of land animals estimated through the articular area of limb-bone cartilage. p. 18 in Anonymous (ed.), Conference programme and abstracts: Progressive Palaeontology 2005, University of Leicester, 15-16 June. 26 pp.
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SVPCA 2004
Taylor, Michael P. 2004. A survey of dinosaur diversity by clade, age, country and year of description. p. 27 in Mark Evans and Richard Forrest (eds.), Abstracts volume for 52nd Symposium of Vertebrae Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, 8th-11th September 2004. 38 pp.
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