tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3248412803814730250.post4334167437371112903..comments2024-03-17T01:48:59.504-07:00Comments on The Theropod Database Blog: Dracoraptor thoughtsMickey Mortimerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08831823442911513851noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3248412803814730250.post-19571820177588603732016-02-27T08:42:42.048-08:002016-02-27T08:42:42.048-08:00Hi
Thanks for putting this article together. It&#...Hi<br /><br />Thanks for putting this article together. It's very interesting and informative. I can't comment on the detail as I'm only an amateur and still learning but it raises some good points.<br /><br />Just out of interest, me and my brother do have more of the Dracoraptor material that wasn't included in the paper as it was found after the paper had been peer reviewed. Interesting, we also have resin casts (positive and negative) that we had made of the skull block before I got it prepped. This clearly shows the outline of the full maxillae and other bones such as the lachrymal, and you can easily put together a reconstruction of the skull. At some point I will get a model of the skull made. <br /><br />By the way, this is an excellent blog.<br /><br />Best Regards<br /><br />Nick HaniganAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13968447185204305117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3248412803814730250.post-17923304706226297572016-02-18T04:12:25.648-08:002016-02-18T04:12:25.648-08:00I should perhaps add that I don't have photogr...I should perhaps add that I don't have photographic memory or any such thing, and I am in fact capable of overlooking typos; I don't have a superpower in that department.David Marjanovićhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00233722577300632805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3248412803814730250.post-51733531496025562062016-02-12T03:40:30.511-08:002016-02-12T03:40:30.511-08:00Surely if I were peer reviewing this paper, I'...<i>Surely if I were peer reviewing this paper, I'd point out the errors above.</i><br /><br />I do that every time. Apparently, the two of us are simply not normal people; it's probably an autism-spectrum thing. Other people seem to think it's not their job, or even it might be construed as insulting to point out such things that should be self-evident – or they simply don't notice. I've often been praised for my "eagle eyes". *shrug*David Marjanovićhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00233722577300632805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3248412803814730250.post-10042712251682401532016-01-26T17:49:30.397-08:002016-01-26T17:49:30.397-08:00I meant editing in the sense of what a peer review...I meant editing in the sense of what a peer reviewer would do. Surely if I were peer reviewing this paper, I'd point out the errors above. More evidence we need to compensate our peer reviewers I suppose. Sad that PLoS journals don't make page proofs. Your comment there ( http://www.plosone.org/annotation/listThread.action?root=88003 )certainly shows they should.Mickey Mortimerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08831823442911513851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3248412803814730250.post-74785445650950220252016-01-26T17:34:32.336-08:002016-01-26T17:34:32.336-08:00Well, it has the apparent record as the dinosaur d...Well, it has the apparent record as the dinosaur dated precisely closest to the beginning of the Jurassic. Of course other less precisely dated taxa like Lophostropheus might have actually lived earlier in the Jurassic, but we don't know that yet.Mickey Mortimerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08831823442911513851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3248412803814730250.post-39951466656488135332016-01-24T15:42:14.478-08:002016-01-24T15:42:14.478-08:00the dudebro name
LOL! It's funny because it&#...<i>the dudebro name</i><br /><br />LOL! It's funny because it's true :-D<br /><br /><i>There seems to have been a lack of rigorous editing</i><br /><br />It shows that you haven't published in too long. :-) Of course there wasn't any editing. Most journals aren't copyedited; the Zool. J. Linn. Soc. published <i>definately</i> on the first page of a big paper in 2000 and never looked back. Few reviewers consider editing part of <b>their</b> job, so anything the authors don't happen to catch at the proof stage is published.<br /><br />PLOS journals don't even make page proofs. See my comment to my paper in PLOS ONE, grmpf.<br /><br /><i>"the femoral head (greater trochanter)"</i><br /><br />That's disturbing!<br /><br /><i>A negative point is that Martill et al. do not order any characters "because it assumes a complete fossil record and a direction to evolution." But ordering does not assume these</i><br /><br />Did they confuse ordering with polarizing???David Marjanovićhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00233722577300632805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3248412803814730250.post-71699730925968654602016-01-24T12:45:11.029-08:002016-01-24T12:45:11.029-08:00I agree in metacarpal re-identification: in fact, ...I agree in metacarpal re-identification: in fact, in my dataset I have avoided scoring mcI sensu Martill et al.Andrea Cauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10855060597677361866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3248412803814730250.post-11166842892455973672016-01-24T10:25:42.184-08:002016-01-24T10:25:42.184-08:00Lophostropheus and other theropods, are among the ...Lophostropheus and other theropods, are among the line of the Rhaetian and Hettangian. That makes Dracoraptor not have that record precisely.Pixagonohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18195814903551576172noreply@blogger.com