Monday, July 23, 2012

Resolving why Confuciusornis has a modified wireframe nearly identical to juvenile Alligator

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In my last post, I took Bhullar et al. (2012) to task for 1) their choice of Confuciusornis as being a close match in analyzed skull shape t...
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Does Confuciusornis really have a skull configuration like juvenile Alligator?

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EDIT: The issues have been resolved.  The short version is that the wireframes are not actually of the specimens, but rather what the averag...
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Monday, July 2, 2012

Silently combining taxa

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Just a brief rant today.  Senter et al.'s (2012) Yurgovuchia paper includes Linheraptor codings in its Tsaagan OTU, and the fairly compl...
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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For a while now, Peters has played the part of the outcast whose new ideas have been shunned by the outdated but stubborn establishment, loc...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...