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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Yes. As a consequence, we seem to be headed back to the bad old days of dinosaur taxonomy, where every isolated scrap gets a name. This is causing a vast proliferation of genera based on indeterminate and fragmentary material that overwhelmes phylogenetic analyses with missing data (1/2)

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The hollowing out of taxonomic expertise is the silent crisis in our profession. And the worse sin is those who aren't even the slight bit *curious* about learning basic identifications.

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Really interesting study with informative thread well worth the 35 posts!

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This is really interesting! What would you say if one were to argue that it’s sensible, if not good, that papers about taxa that more people are interested in are concentrated in the most widely-read publications?

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