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.

Saturday, January 24, 2015

BANDit cladogram evaluated - James and Pourtless 2009

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Besides Hou et al. (1996), the only BANDit (Birds Are Not Dinosaurs) cladistic analysis has been that of James and Pourtless (2009).  Little...
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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Is Linheraptor a synonym of Tsaagan?

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One of the first theropod papers of 2015 is Xu et al.'s defending Linheraptor as being distinct from Tsaagan , after they were synonymiz...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

Big "New Years" Theropod Database update

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Happy only over a week from New Years everyone!  Time for a Theropod Database update.  Besides all of the new taxa, there's a huge revis...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

"Madsenius" and "Wyomingraptor"

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As part of the huge Allosaurus rehaul coming in my annual "New Years" (*cough* it's already January 8th *cough*) Database upda...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Neotyping past a diagnostic syntype - Majungasaurus edition

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One of my pet peeves is the recent trend to petition the ICZN to designate a more complete specimen the neotype of a taxon when the fragment...
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Monday, December 15, 2014

Gansus zheni is Iteravis

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So two Jehol ornithuromorphs were just named- Iteravis huchzermeyeri and Gansus zheni .  While writing up their Database entries, I noticed...
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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Norman's nomenclature's notoriously negative

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Norman (2014) just published a revision of the iguanodont Hypselospinus , and while I have no opinion on the issues of synonymization, his t...
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Mickey Mortimer
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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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