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Nationality
  
British


Name
  
Michael Taylor

Michael P. Taylor

Born
  
March 12, 1968 (age 56) Bishop's Stortford, England (
1968-03-12
)

Residence
  
Ruardean, Gloucestershire, England

Fields
  
Paleontology Computer programming

Alma mater
  
Warwick University University of Portsmouth

Education
  
University of Warwick, University of Portsmouth

Michael P. Taylor (born March 12, 1968) is a British computer programmer with a Ph.D in palaeontology. To date, he has published 18 paleontological papers and is co-credited with naming three genera of dinosaur (Xenoposeidon in 2007 with Darren Naish, Brontomerus in 2011 with Matt J. Wedel and Richard Cifeli, and Haestasaurus in 2015 with Paul Upchurch and Phil Mannion).

Along with paleontologists Darren Naish and Matt Wedel, he founded the paleontology blog Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week, where he blogs as Mike Taylor.

He lives in Ruardean, Gloucestershire, England.

References

Michael P. Taylor Wikipedia