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, June 13, 2012

Why doesn't Peters find Dinosauria or Saurischia?

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Peters has defended his amniote analysis as being superior to other published analyses, since it includes numerous genus-level OTUs.  And in...
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Monday, June 4, 2012

Why David Peters' analysis sucks

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For a while now, Peters has played the part of the outcast whose new ideas have been shunned by the outdated but stubborn establishment, loc...
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Sunday, May 27, 2012

The Yurgovuchia analysis isn't all it's cracked up to be

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When I first saw Senter et al.'s 2012 analysis for the Yurgovuchia paper, I was excited.  Senter (2007) did a better job coding than the...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Testing alternative tetanurine topologies in Carrano et al. 2012

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In my last post, I described Carrano et al.'s superb new tetanurine analysis.  One of my biggest complaints was that very few alternativ...

Amazing new tetanurine paper

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Carrano et al. just published an excellent new paper on tetanurine phylogeny, with perhaps the most new information on varied theropod taxa ...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

New dromaeosaurid Yurgovuchia

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So a new dromaeosaurid was described today by Senter et al. (2012), whose description is free at PLoS ONE . Interesting that the authors s...
Monday, April 23, 2012

Zhao 1986 Cretaceous dinosaurian nomina nuda first impressions

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Thanks to Molnar for sending me Zhao's rare 1986 paper on Chinese Reptilia.  In fact, it's so rare that many references confuse it w...
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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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