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.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Agnolin and Novas's (2011) cheating for unenlagiine monophyly?

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Here's a quick example of the fun I find when checking matrices for my analysis.  Agnolin and Novas (2011) took Hu et al.'s (2009) m...
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It's amazing how young most theropod specimens are

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Theropod analyses contain so many characters that are ontogenetically variable.  Not just the numerous fusion characters (e.g. premaxillae, ...
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Friday, January 13, 2012

Please do a better job at alvarezsauroid taxonomy

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Among my Database updates were two new alvarezsaurid papers- Agnolin et al. (2012) describing Bonapartenykus and Xu et al. (2012) monographi...
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

(Almost) Famous: I'm (mis)quoted in Feduccia's new book!

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Today Brad McFeeters informed me that Feduccia (2011) quoted me from a 2003 DML post in his new book!  This is so great... "Among the...
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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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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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