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.

Monday, November 3, 2025

Equal Weights vs. Implied Weights in the Lori analysis

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While I finish the Ibirania vs. Titanosaurus post, the latest Nanotyrannus paper got me thinking about my resistance to unequal weighting. ...
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Monday, October 20, 2025

The Titanosaurus (in?)validity project Part 4 - Bonatitan

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Today's taxon to be compared with Titanosaurus in our continuing series is Bonatitan reigi , described by Martinelli and Forasiepi (2004...
Saturday, October 18, 2025

The Titanosaurus (in?)validity project Part 3 - Rocasaurus

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Next up in my series of comparisons with Titanosaurus , to determine its validity, is Rocasaurus muniozi . Named by Salgado and Azpilicueta ...
Friday, October 17, 2025

How not to illustrate your new skeletal reconstruction in its descriptive paper

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A brief one today while I finish the Rocasaurus post. So we have a new basal sauropodomorph described from the Late Triassic Santo Domingo ...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

The Titanosaurus (in?)validity project Part 2 - Neuquensaurus

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Continuing our project, the next taxon is Neuquensaurus australis , first named Titanosaurus australis by Lydekker (1893). It was then sepa...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2025

The Titanosaurus (in?)validity project Part 1 - Saltasaurus

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The whole Alamosaurus vs. Utetitan discussion on the Dinosaur Mailing Group made me curious about Titanosaurus ' validity, since it...
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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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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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