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.

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Happy New Year! The Database is updated!

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Check it out !  All the 2011 taxa are there.  I'm off to party....
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Surprise! Jeholornis palmapenis isn't valid.

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What's that you say?  ANOTHER supposedly new Jehol basal avialan is just a junior synonym of a known species?!  Shock!  Gasp!  This time...
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Monday, December 26, 2011

Merry Christmas! It's Xu's Thesis

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I received a wonderful Christmas present this year- a copy of Xu's (2002) thesis on Liaoning deinonychosaurs which I've wanted for a...
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Friday, December 2, 2011

Top 10 Most Poorly Described and Illustrated Mesozoic Theropods

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Look at that, I managed to skip a month between posts.  The hazards of coding, illness and other such excuses.  Here's a quickie that wa...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Cladistics good, Aurorazhdarcho bad

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Today I'm reporting on two papers, one good, one bad.  Both involve cladistics, but besides that are basically unrelated. Tom Holtz no...
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Friday, October 21, 2011

Xiaotingia commentary, is Archaeopteryx a deinonychosaur?

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I just wrote this for the DML and figured it could be useful to post here. The majority view, as in the conclusion found by almost every c...
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Saturday, October 15, 2011

Theropoda in the Amazing Year 2100

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One of my pet peeves is the cavalier attitude many dinosaur paleontologists have recently in regard to the priority and validity of old taxa...
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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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