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, September 30, 2010

Kayentavenator is not a tetanurine

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Only five posts this month?!  Time to end September with a Kayentavenator series. You may remember Kayentavenator from the discussions it ...
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Sunday, September 26, 2010

Please DON'T ignore any taxa - A rebuttal to O'Connor and Dyke

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O'Connor and Dyke (2010) recently published a paper defending the validity of Cathayornis in relation to Sinornis , and thus contradicti...
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Saturday, September 11, 2010

Do theropods described in Science and Nature get fully described later?

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At the request of Mike Taylor, here's an update and expansion of a post I wrote for the DML last year.  Basically, we have a system that...
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Friday, September 10, 2010

Concavenator Part II - Becklespinax comparison, ulnar muscle details and a last lunch

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It seems Naish had the same ideas I did regarding the similarity to Becklespinax and the supposed ulnar quill knobs being part of an interm...
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Thursday, September 9, 2010

Concavenator - feathers, Becklespinax and how not to delete taxa

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So Concavenator is all the rage, and having just received the paper from Holtz (thanks!), I figured I'd share a few opinions. First, t...
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Ceratosaurian ornithomimosaurs - another crazy idea?

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The first taxon to be added to Ceratosauria after Ceratosaurus itself was Ornithomimus (Marsh, 1895).  While this version of Ceratosauria ha...
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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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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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