Mannion, P.D. (2010) Environmental and geological controls on
the diversity and distribution of the sauropodomorpha. Doctoral
thesis, UCL (University College London). |Excel Spreadsheet
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Sauropodomorph dinosaurs were an important component of Mesozoic
terrestrial ecosystems. Their diversity and abundance fluctuated
throughout the Mesozoic but whether this reflects genuine
biological changes or merely variations in our sampling of the
rock record is uncertain. A database of all sauropodomorph
individuals (2335) has been compiled, including environmental,
geological, taxonomic and taphonomic data. Using a variety of
sampling proxies (including a new specimen completeness metric)
and a number of analytical techniques (residuals, rarefaction
and phylogenetic diversity estimates), this work has
demonstrated that sauropodomorph diversit