26th June 2009
Dr. Michael P. Taylor
Department of Earth Sciences
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom
<dino@miketaylor.org.uk>
Published Papers
Papers In Press
Conference, Symposium and Invited Talks
Ph.D Dissertation
Invited talk, Humboldt Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Taylor, Michael P.
2008.
Brachiosaurus brancai is not Brachiosaurus.
(No published abstract.)
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]
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]
Aspects of the history, anatomy, taxonomy and palaeobiology of
sauropod dinosaurs.
Submitted 9th February 2009, defended 28th April.
Contents
(Not available to download, as it contains two in-press papers, and I don't want to steal my own thunder.)