What is the MOST COMMON dinosaur? (Most skeletons found)

Out of all of the dinosaurs we’ve found, which is the most common in the fossil record? It turns out that finding the answer to this question was a lot harder than I thought. Starting with a few basic wikipedia searches, and then diving in to a ton of deeper sources, I was able to hunt down the top three most common dinosaurs. And what are they? I won’t say the names here (you’ll have to watch the video), but one of them is a long neck, one is a meat eater, and one is a cousin of triceratops.
As a side note, it turns out that it is really hard to find the most common dinosaur. If you have a few hundred hours on your hands and nothing to do, you should create a database of every dinosaur skeleton uncovered, because it would be super helpful to anyone making a video about dinosaur commonality.
Just a side note, there are only really 2 "good" skeletons of Spinosaurus (one of which got blown up by a bomb, and neither of which were actually very complete), but there are fragmentary skeletons that count toward the others that I mention in this video. There are also possibly other small bits and pieces of Spinosaurus that we have found, but I did not include them. Check the main sources in Wikipedia for Spinosaurus (the website) to fact check the skeletons if you so choose.
Edmontosaurus and Triceratops might also be on the list, but I need better information sources on them to know for sure.
Anyway, thanks for watching, guys!
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Super special thanks to Elder Crosby, who came up with the idea for this video.
Special thanks to Adobe Firefly and Pixabay!
I had too many citations to put them all in the description, so I added a link to a citations page instead.
Works and images cited:
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Thanks again from the Ogden Dino Park.
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