I think this is indicative of a wider problem - the urge to stick names on as many things as possible is visible in lots of groups, including people trying to name every last node on their favoured phylogeny. We also have people like Greg Paul committing outright taxonomic vandalism.

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Not just dinosaurs. Almost every pterosaur specimen from the Santana and Crato Formations has been assigned to a distinct species, or even genus - so why bother with names - we should just use the specimen numbers. Meanwhile, over in the Kem Kem... Anyway, I'm sure AI will sort it all out for us.😜

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To be fair, such a project should probably be done both with and excluding mammaliaforms. The identification potential of mammal cheek teeth really don't seem to have parallels in most other vertebrate clades.

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Someone should do that skeletal completeness stuff for holotypes only and compare across clades

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Recently came across this skeletal reconstruction of a recently described dinosaur species, which gives a sense of the direction things are going in.

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