How Many Dinosaurs Remain to Be Discovered?
How Many Dinosaurs Remain to Be Discovered? Thursday April 15, 2010#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) In these days when it seems like a new dinosaur is being discovered every half-hour, you can’t help but ask the nagging are we running out of inventory? To date, about 1,500 dinosaur genera have been identified and named, though we only know significant details about a few hundred (all of which have been profiled on this site, in my Dinosaurs A to Z master list). Recently, the eminent paleontologist Jack Horner speculated that as many as a third of these genera may be superfluous–that is, the same dinosaur has been inadvertently named twice, based on examination of juvenile and adult fossil remains–so let’s say for the
