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[dinosaur] Dinosaur statistics 2018



Vladimir Socha posted an introduction to his new "Dinosaur statistics 2018" (in Czech): https://dinosaurusblog.com/2018/07/12/dinosauri-statistika-2018/

Some interesting results:

Countries by number of valid dinosaur species:

1. China 289 (22.56 %)

2. USA 264 (20.61 %)

3. Argentina 133 (10.38 %)

4. Mongolia 87 (6.79 %)

5. UK 84 (6.55 %)

6. Canada 77 (6.01 %)

7. RSA and India 27 (2.11 % each)

9. France 26 (2.03 %)

10. Brazil 25 (1.95 %)

11. Spain 24 (1.86 %)

12. Portugal and Australia 20 (1.55 %)

...

45. Czech Republic, Poland, Croatia, Denmark, Ukraine, Colombia and Angola 1 species (0.08 %)


50 countries in total.


Continents by number of valid dinosaur species:


1. Asia - 467 sp. (36.3 %)

2. North America - 343 sp. (26.7 %)

3. Europe - 199 sp. (15.5 %)

4. South America - 164 sp. (12.7 %)

5. Africa - 90 sp. (7.0 %)

6. Australia - 20 sp. (1.6 %)

7. Antarctica - 5 sp. (0.4 %)


In total:

734 species of Saurischians v. 557 species of Ornithischians (56.9 % to 43.1 %), from which 449 sp. are theropods (34.8 %).