The Theropod Database Blog

Here's a place where I can post my thoughts on new papers, provide updates on my projects, and post info that will eventually be on my website The Theropod Database - https://theropoddatabase.github.io/ . It will center on theropods, but may delve into other topics as well such as phylogenetics.

Thursday, February 13, 2025

No pygostyle for Baminornis

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This week's big news was Baminornis (Chen et al., 2025), a bird with a supposed large pygostyle from a well dated Tithonian locality (Na...
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Thursday, December 12, 2024

Details on "Megalosaurus" monasterii

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Here's a post about a theropod taxon so obscure it really doesn't have a presence on the web besides brief parroting of the largely ...
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Saturday, October 5, 2024

New website for The Theropod Database plus new nomina nuda

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I had to move hosts, so the new website for The Theropod Database is https://theropoddatabase.github.io/ .  We're working out some encod...
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Sunday, June 23, 2024

Fonseca et al (2024) perform a Lori-style analysis of basal Ornithischia

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This post is a shout-out to Fonseca et al. (2024), whose abstract states- "Resolving the evolutionary relationships of early diverging ...
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Saturday, May 4, 2024

Correct citations for Sinosauropteryx and Protarchaeopteryx

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A quick one today based on the fact I just found out the entirety of Chinese Geology is free online.  Ji and Ji used it for their early Yixi...
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Sunday, December 31, 2023

The Avian Acetabulum: Feduccia grasping at straws

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It's not every day that we get an article arguing against the dinosaurian origin of birds any more, with that consensus so strongly supp...
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Mickey Mortimer
Seattle, WA, United States
I'm an amateur paleontologist with a BS in Earth and Space Sciences from the University of Washington. My scientific interests center around theropods and phylogenetics.
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