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.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

New theropod Vitakrisaurus and Vitakridrinda's publication date settled

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I've been trying to track down the publication officially describing Vitakridrinda , and have finally succeeded. Malkani first mention...
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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Advance online publication and getting dates correct

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We all know the issues caused by journals releasing online versions of their papers earlier than the paper versions are published.  I normal...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

"Syntarsus" "mexicanum"

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Thanks to Pixagono, Harris, Chure and Scheetz for their combined work in finding this new theropod name.  It turns out the proper reference ...
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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Peters is wrong (surprise) about Herrerasaurus and a new idea about Austroraptor

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It's like shooting fish in a barrel, I know, but I felt the need to correct Peters' most recent Photoshop manipulation disaster, sin...
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Thursday, February 2, 2012

Are Sauropod Skulls Actually Rare?

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Hone recently mentioned this old piece of paleontological "common knowledge", but I wonder how true it really is. For one, we...
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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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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