Best Sauropods
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P. Martin Sander is a German vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Bonn, noted for sauropod gigantism and Europasaurus dwarfism in 2006.
Jeffrey A. Wilson is an American paleontologist at the University of Michigan, known for sauropod phylogeny and co-naming India's Rajasaurus in 2003.
Paul Upchurch is a British vertebrate paleontologist at UCL specializing in sauropod systematics and a 1995 review of sauropod evolutionary history.
Kristina Curry Rogers is an American sauropod specialist who co-named Madagascar's titanosaur Rapetosaurus krausei in Nature in 2001.
Mathew Wedel is an American paleontologist at Western University of Health Sciences, known for sauropod pneumaticity and co-naming Sauroposeidon in 2000.
Leonardo Salgado is an Argentine paleontologist renowned for his extensive research on sauropod dinosaurs and co-describing the massive Argentinosaurus in 1993.
Philip Mannion is a British vertebrate paleontologist specializing in sauropod evolution, and in 2015 co-named the English sauropod Haestasaurus.
Michael P. Taylor is a British paleontologist and programmer, co-founder of Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week and co-namer of Xenoposeidon in 2007.
Jorge O. Calvo is an Argentine paleontologist who founded the dinosaur museum in Rincón de los Sauces and notably described the giant titanosaur sauropod Futalognkosaurus in 2007.
Kenneth Lacovara is an American paleontologist who discovered the giant Patagonian titanosaur Dreadnoughtus, formally described in 2014.
Emanuel Tschopp is a Swiss paleontologist known for diplodocid sauropods; a 2015 study he led argued that Brontosaurus is distinct from Apatosaurus.
