Fossil quality and naming dinosaurs
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Fossil quality and naming dinosaurs.
The intense interest in dinosaurs through the past 30 years might have led to an increase in poor practice in naming new species. A review of the data shows that the reverse is the case. For 130 years, from the 1820s to the 1950s, most new species of dinosaurs were based on scrappy and incomplete material. After 1960, the majority of new species have been based on complete skulls or skeletons, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biology Letters
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1744-9561,1744-957X
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0402