#I shoehorn them in as soon as it's feasible based on the number

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

basically I'm too bad at math (or too unwilling to try to figure it out exactly) but at small numbers I try to just represent the three major groups of dinosaurs (ornithischians, sauropodomorphs, theropods) as accurately as I can, which often means using a bird for theropods as there are thousands of bird species and not nearly as many nonavian theropods, until I can afford to have a nonavian theropod, and from there I just divide until all major forms of dinosaurs are represented at least once, and from there I represent proportionally to the number of dinosaur genera/species there are per group, which means as the number of dinosaur species to be represented goes up, the number of birds goes up, because there are SO many more birds than nonavian dinosaurs (unless we're just doing fossils, which, makes it proportional to time, roughly, so that's fine. Way less lopsided.) So if you ask for a ridiculously high number, it's just a bunch of birds and most nonavian dinosaurs we know. At 10,000, you're just asking for the Dinosauromorpha Masterlist created by myself and maintained by my friend and colleague @albertonykus who runs @new-dinosaurs as well, so I provide it here but be warned that it's by genus and most living dinosaurs have plenty of species per genus so the number of species of dinosaur is somewhere between 10k and 20k so that's why I draw a hard line around there: