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, September 17, 2014

No giant Egyptian Deltadromeus

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The Spinosaurus news has led to me reviewing the African mid Cretaceous taxa on the Database.  This means I've been working my way throu...
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Thursday, September 11, 2014

Spinosaurus surprise

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This is a post to discuss some implications of today's huge Spinosaurus reboot by Ibrahim et al. (2014). What a cool and unexpected mo...
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Monday, May 26, 2014

Is Thecocoelurus an ornithomimosaur?

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Allain et al. (2014) recently claimed Thecocoelurus , a small partial theropod cervical vertebra from Early Cretaceous England, is "mor...
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Saturday, May 24, 2014

Revisiting a BAND cladogram

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Twelve years ago, I replied to a post Nick Gardner wrote to the DML, critiquing and updating the phylogenetic analysis of Hou et al. (1996)...
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Saturday, March 22, 2014

Anzu is no Rosetta Stone (yet?)

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Last time I said Aves tests would be my next post, but I didn't know Anzu would be published so soon.  For those out of the loop, Anzu w...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Theropod Database info published and credited

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I've done my fair share of complaining when material of mine is published without attribution, or ideas suspiciously similar to mine are...
Saturday, March 8, 2014

Testing pterosaur origins in Ezcurra et al. (2014)

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There's a new amniote analysis out from Ezcurra et al. (2014) emphasizing the lepidosauromorph-archosauromorph split.  Thev changed a to...
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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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