The eight posts that made up Xenoposeidon Week in November 2007 (nine if you include Day 8, which came fifteens months later) are:
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week #AcademicSpring
SV-POW! … All sauropod vertebrae, except when we're talking about Open Access
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Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week by Mike Taylor, Matt Wedel, Darren Naish is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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November 6, 2008 at 3:00 pm
[...] of these elements are too bashed up to be diagnostic (with the Xenoposeidon holotype R2095 being an honourable exception). But there are one or two that are much better preserved, and [...]
November 15, 2008 at 7:01 am
[...] much more of Xeno, see Xenoposeidon week. Posted by Mike Taylor Filed in Wealden, Xenoposeidon, book review, fame, goofy, [...]
February 17, 2009 at 4:27 pm
[...] For anyone who’s not up to speed, a super-brief resumé: Xeno is an indeterminate neosauropod which Darren and I named in 2007 on the basis of a single element, a superbly preserved partial dorsal vertebra loaded with distinctive features that make it very clearly distinct from any other named taxon. For anyone who wants more background, the original paper is freely available, as is a page summarising the story for the media, some unnofficial supplementary information, and a whole week’s worth of SV-POW! posts. [...]
May 28, 2009 at 5:09 pm
[...] there’s been a little less interest than we were able to rustle up for Xenoposeidon, but we nevertheless got a live TV interview on Channel 4 News, plus radio interviews on BBC Radio [...]
June 1, 2009 at 9:08 pm
[...] When we started blogging our recent neck-posture paper (Taylor et al. 2009, for those of you who’ve been chatting in the back row and not paying attention), we expected to make two posts, maybe three. Yet here we are in post six, and I know Matt has another up the barrel for tomorrow, so it looks like we’re going to end up having written a whole week’s worth of daily posts, just as we did for Xenoposeidon. [...]
September 12, 2009 at 1:26 am
[...] when the Xenoposeidon paper came out, we suggested that Xeno could be the first repesentative of a new sauropod [...]
February 26, 2010 at 2:36 am
[...] as I tried to describe the weird morphology of the as-yet-unpublished vertebra that we now know as Xenoposeidon. At an advanced age — I don’t know exactly how old he is, but you can get some idea [...]
October 11, 2010 at 5:00 pm
[...] Chapter 3. An unusual new neosauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Hastings Beds Group of East Sussex, England — published in Palaeontology [...]
February 23, 2011 at 12:03 am
[...] representing about 10% of a skeleton — not much, admittedly, but about 9% more than for Xenoposeidon. Oddly enough, for this blog, the two most informative elements are appendicular: a nearly complete [...]
July 6, 2011 at 11:46 am
[...] a fairly hardcore descriptive paper like the Xenoposeidon description (Taylor and Naish 2007, natch), you’re more limited in how much of a story you can tell, and [...]
October 17, 2011 at 11:36 am
[...] going to say “never”. For example, suppose someone found a more complete specimen of Xenoposeidon and submitted the description to Cretaceous Research, a non-open Elsevier journal that is actually [...]
October 31, 2011 at 11:15 am
[...] when Darren and I did the Xenoposeidon description, we were young and foolish, and only illustrated the holotype vertebra NHM R2095 in four aspects: [...]
February 19, 2013 at 10:16 am
[...] Society dinosaur-history volume; chapter 2 (the Brachiosaurus revision) was in JVP; chapter 3 (the Xenoposeidon description) was in Palaeontology; chapter 4 (the Brontomerus description) was in Acta Palaeontologica [...]