GREAT WORKS

["Matthew Troutman" <m_troutman@hotmail.com>]

    Recently I was reading a book about cladistics that pointed out the 
revolutionary proclamations of a certain (now) obscure paper.  It made me 
think about truly revolutionary papers (and books) of dinosaurology and/or 
vertebrate paleontology of the 20th century (even though it doesn't end 
until 2001).  They are great not necessarily right, but they did stimulate 
further research.

Here's a short list:

Heilmann 1926
Ostrom 1969, 1976
Gauthier 1986

This isn't even including non-dinosaurian works such as:

Gauthier et al. 1988
Rosen et al. 1981

Of course there are even more in the arena of fish, early tetrapods, early 
amniotes, early synapsids, early sauropsids, early amphibians, etc.  I'm 
curious to hear what other list members have to say on this matter.

Matt Troutman
m_troutman@hotmail.com
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