29th April 2013
Dr. Michael P. Taylor
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol
Wills Memorial Building, Queen's Road, Bristol BS8 1RJ, UK
<dino@miketaylor.org.uk>
http://svpow.com
@MikeTaylor
Published Papers
Papers In Press
Conference, Symposium and Invited Talks
Conference Posters
Popular Press
Dinosaurs
Open Access
Walking with Dinosaurs
Ph.D Dissertation
SVPCA 2012
Taylor, Michael P., and Mathew J. Wedel.
2012.
Re-evaluating "Apatosaurus" minimus, a bizarre Morrison
Formation sauropod with diplodocoid and macronarian features.
p. 23 in
Matt Friedman and Graeme Lloyd (eds.),
Programme and Abstracts, 60th Annual Symposium of Vertebrae
Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, University of Oxford,
Oxford, UK, September 10th-15th 2012.
33 pp.
[Abstract]
[Abstracts volume]
[Slides]
SVPCA 2011
Taylor, Michael P., and Mathew J. Wedel.
2011.
Sauropod necks: how much do we really know?.
p. 20 in
Richard Forrest (ed.),
Abstracts of Presentations, 59th Annual Symposium of Vertebrae
Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy,
Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK, September 12th-17th 2011.
37 pp.
[Abstract]
[Abstracts volume]
[Slides]
SVPCA 2010
Taylor, Michael P., and Mathew J. Wedel.
2010.
Why giraffes have such short necks.
p. 24 in
Anonymous (ed.),
Abstracts volume for 58th Symposium of Vertebrae Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy,
University of Cambridge, UK, 15th-17th September 2010.
38 pp.
[Abstract]
[Abstracts volume]
[Slides]
... and ...
Wedel, Mathew J., and Michael P. Taylor.
2010.
Caudal pneumaticity and pneumatic hiatuses in the sauropod dinosaurs Giraffatitan and Apatosaurus.
pp. 25-26 in
Anonymous (ed.),
Abstracts volume for 58th Symposium of Vertebrae Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy,
University of Cambridge, UK, 15th-17th September 2010.
38 pp.
[Abstract]
[Abstracts volume]
[Slides not yet available.]
[No talk in 2009: I didn't get a slot at the joint SVP/SVPCA meeting in Bristol. Not even a poster.]
Invited talk, Humboldt Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Taylor, Michael P.
2008.
Brachiosaurus brancai is not Brachiosaurus.
(No published abstract.)
[Slides]
Symposium: Biology of the sauropod dinosaurs: the evolution of
gigantism (2008)
Taylor, Michael P.,
Mathew J. Wedel
and
Darren Naish.
2008.
A new approach to determining the habitual neck posture of
sauropods based on the behaviour of extant animals.
(No published abstract.)
[Slides]
... and ...
Taylor, Michael P.
2008.
Upper limits on the mass of land animals estimated through the articular area of limb-bone cartilage.
(No published abstract, but it was the same talk as
my ProgPal 2005 offering)
[Slides]
Symposium: Dinosaurs, A Historical Perspective (2008)
Taylor, Michael P.
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.
[Abstract]
[PDF Abstract]
[Slides]
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.
[Abstract]
[PDF Abstract]
[Slides]
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.
[Abstract]
[Slides]
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.
[Abstract]
[PDF Abstract]
[Slides]
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.
[Abstract]
[Slides]
SVP 2009
Naish, Darren,
Michael P. Taylor
and
Mathew J. Wedel.
2009.
Extant animals provide new insights on head and neck posture in sauropods.
p. 154A in:
Program and Abstracts: 69th Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrae Palaeontology, September 23-26, 2009.
220 pp.
[PowerPoint]
[PDF]
Aspects of the history, anatomy, taxonomy and
palaeobiology of sauropod dinosaurs.
Submitted 9th February 2009, defended 28th April.
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Portsmouth, UK.
arXiv:1302.5142
You can buy a hardback copy with a beautiful full-colour cover at a low, low price. But since all five chapters have since been published as journal articles and book chapters, you might not want to bother.
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