Plenty of dinosaurs yet to be found
By Sid Perkins
From Denver, at a meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
The dramatic surge in dinosaur discoveries that paleontologists have been enjoying in recent years won’t soon abate, a new analysis suggests.
As of 1990, when the first edition of a comprehensive reference book entitled The Dinosauria (David B. Weishampel, Peter Dodson, and Halszka Osmolska, eds., University of California Press: Berkeley) was published, scientists had described dinosaurs representing about 285 genera. Since then, paleontologists have been on a roll, describing at least one species from each of another 222 genera, says Peter Dodson of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.