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, April 9, 2013

Are Marasuchus, SMNS 12352 and Trialestes theropods?

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No, of course not, as we saw in my earlier post where correcting codings and adding data excludes them from the clade.  But Peters thinks th...
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Friday, April 5, 2013

Excellent new paper on titanosauriforms

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We interrupt our regularly scheduled dismantling of Peters' phylogeny to bring you a non-theropod paper. Basal titanosauriforms and ma...
Friday, March 29, 2013

Peters' dinosaur phylogeny fails finale part 2 - The test

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The last post covered many of the problems with Peters' amniote analysis- codings based on sculpted or nonexistent material, codings bas...
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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Peters' dinosaur phylogeny fails finale part 1 - The Problems

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As we've discussed a few times before here, Peters finds an odd topology for dinosaurs in his Big Reptile Tree (bottom right in http://w...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Testing Peters' dinosaur phylogeny

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As we discussed before , David Peters' amniote analysis finds an odd topology for dinosauriformes. --Theropoda including Marasuchus , ...
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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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