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.

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Review of "A Field Guide to Mesozoic Birds and Other Winged Dinosaurs"

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We all know Martyniuk published his field guide of Mesozoic oviraptorosaurs and paravians last month.  How does it hold up?  I was happily s...
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Thursday, January 3, 2013

Martyniuk's (2012) new definitions and clades

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Martyniuk's "A Field Guide to Mesozoic Birds and Other Winged Dinosaurs" is out, and while most of it is in the form of a popu...
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Monday, December 3, 2012

Is Ichthyovenator a spinosaurid?

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So I've been adding taxa to Carrano et al.'s (2012) tetanurine analysis for a Database update, and most positions are expected (I su...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

"Allosaurus/Chilantaisaurus" sibiricus is probably a megaraptoran

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So the Database is still up for some reason, but I've come through with my promise to examine what Riabinin named Allosaurus sibiricus ...
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Saturday, November 24, 2012

"New" name for Megalosaurus? lydekkeri

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When checking if Walgettosuchus woodwardi had in fact been reassigned to Megalosaurus as listed by Olshevsky (1991), I found a theropod nam...
Friday, November 16, 2012

Wang et al. 2012 - for once I'm against a paper synonymizing Jehol birds?!

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Wang et al. have a new paper in press synonymizing Jixiangornis with Shenzhouraptor (their Jeholornis ). EDIT: I've been in communicat...
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Sunday, November 4, 2012

The Theropod Database will be down for a while

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Due to a recent move, my Comcast domain will be discontinued starting 11-4, so the Theropod Database will go offline then too.  Luckily, Nic...
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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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