Michael Paul Taylor (born 12 March 1968) is a British

computer programmer A computer programmer, sometimes referred to as a software developer, a software engineer, a programmer or a coder, is a person who creates computer programs — often for larger computer software. A programmer is someone who writes/creates ...

with a Ph.D. in

palaeontology Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...

. To date, he has published 18 paleontological papers and is co-credited with naming three genera of dinosaur (''

Xenoposeidon ''Xenoposeidon'' (meaning "strange or alien Poseidon", in allusion to ''Sauroposeidon'') is a genus of rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of England, living about 140 million years ago. It is known from a single parti ...

'' in 2007 with

Darren Naish Darren William Naish is a British vertebrate palaeontologist, author and science communicator. As a researcher, he is best known for his work describing and reevaluating dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles, including ''Eotyrannus'', ''Xenopos ...

, ''

Brontomerus ''Brontomerus'' (from Greek ''bronte'' meaning "thunder", and ''merós'' meaning "thigh") is a possibly dubious genus of camarasauromorph sauropod which lived during the early Cretaceous (Aptian or Albian age, approximately 110 million years ago ...

'' in 2011 with

Matt J. Wedel Mathew John Wedel is an American paleontologist. He is associate professor at the Western University of Health Sciences Department of Anatomy in California. Wedel studies sauropods and the evolution of pneumatic bones in dinosaurs. At Western U ...

and Richard Cifeli, and ''

Haestasaurus ''Haestasaurus'' is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur, belonging to the Macronaria, that during the Early Cretaceous lived in the area of present-day England. The only species is ''Haestasaurus becklesii''.Upchurch P., Mannion P.D., Taylor ...

'' in 2015 with

Paul Upchurch Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chris ...

and

Phil Mannion Phil may refer to: * Phil (given name), a shortened version of masculine and feminine names * Phill, a given name also spelled "Phil" * Phil, Kentucky, United States * ''Phil'' (film), a 2019 film * -phil-, a lexical fragment, used as a root term ...

). Along with paleontologists

and Matt Wedel, he founded the paleontology blog ''Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week'', where he blogs as Mike Taylor. He lives in

Ruardean Ruardean is a village in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, to the North West of Cinderford. It is situated on a hillside with views west towards the mountains of South Wales. Little now remains of the village's industrial history, but ...

, Gloucestershire, England.

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Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
' 1968 births Living people British palaeontologists People from Bishop's Stortford People from Forest of Dean District {{paleontologist-stub