The new Geological Society volume on the history of research into dinosaurs, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs and their buddies is now out [amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, and don't complain to me about the price], and the final chapter is mine on sauropod research. Although it won’t contain much that is new to seasoned palaeontologists, I hope it provides a useful overview to newcomers (and a few interesting nuggets for everyone).
The paper
- Taylor, Michael P. 2010. Sauropod dinosaur research: a historical review. pp. 361-386 in: Richard T. J. Moody, Eric Buffetaut, Darren Naish and David M. Martill (eds.), Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Saurians: a Historical Perspective. Geological Society of London, Special Publication 343. doi: 10.1144/SP343.22
High-resolution figures
You can get these from my web-site. They’re the same figures as appear in the paper, but in the original high resolutions that I submitted.
SV-POW! posts
July 6, 2011 at 11:46 am
[...] a more interesting example of this route is the survey of the history of sauropod studies (Taylor 2010). This started life as a slideshow, the accompaniment for my talk the the conference [...]
February 19, 2013 at 10:16 am
[...] and most important, it means that my entire Ph.D is now published. Chapter 1 (the sauropod-history review) was in the Geological Society dinosaur-history volume; chapter 2 (the Brachiosaurus revision) [...]