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, August 30, 2010

Recoding Holtz 1994 Part 2- 36% miscoded and alternate placements

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Holtz's analysis was impressive at the time for its size, in both characters and taxa used. The analysis has a refreshingly low Consista...
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Saturday, August 28, 2010

Recoding Holtz 1994 Part 1

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Ah, Holtz 1994.  The second detailed theropod analysis to be published (after Gauthier, 1986), Holtz's paper was the first to quantitati...
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Friday, August 20, 2010

My Summary of This Year's Coolest SVP Abstracts

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... can't be written.  The abstract volume for SVP 2010 came out today, and contains loads of interesting news for us paleontologists.  ...
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Saturday, August 14, 2010

Is a theropod-ornithischian group that crazy?

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While recoding Holtz's (1994) theropod analysis, I've been using Heterodontosaurus as one of the main outgroup taxa, being a basal o...
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Friday, August 6, 2010

Brief Thoughts on Chromogisaurus and Guaibasauridae

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Since SVP 2009 we've been hearing about Ezcurra's idea a broad range of basal saurischians ( Guaibasaurus, Saturnalia, Panphagia, Ag...
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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Shenshiornis is *gasp* another young Sapeornis

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Speaking of synonyms, I was hardly surprised to learn that yet again, another supposed new "sapeornithid" is just plain old Sapeor...
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

GSP's new taxon combinations from his dinosaur field guide

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Taking a break from non-theropods, I checked out the Google Books preview for Gregory S. Paul's new The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosau...
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Mickey Mortimer
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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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