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, March 28, 2017

Ornithoscelida Tested- Adding taxa and checking characters

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So the last post reported on Baron et al.'s (2017) new paper that recovered a theropod-ornithischian clade excluding sauropodomorphs, w...
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Friday, March 24, 2017

Ornithoscelida Lives!

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Back in 2010, I wrote a post about how surprisingly theropod-like Heterodontosaurus was , and ended by stating "Not that I'm sayin...
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Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Basal Dinosauromorpha in the Lori tree

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Hi everyone!  Sorry for being away so long.  As an interesting experiment, after adding every decently preserved theropod to the Lori matrix...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

The Monster of Minden published at last

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Those of you who frequented the Dinosaur Mailing List in the early 2000s might remember references to a supposedly gigantic German theropod-...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Is Gualicho Aoniraptor?

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A very cool theropod was published today- Gualicho shinyae (Apesteguia et al., 2016).  It's a large taxon from the Huincul Formation of ...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Is Lagerpeton a proterochampsian? The Dromomeron angle

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Sorry for the lack of posts (or Database updates) lately, as I've been working with Scott Hartman to add Lori to the coelurosaur matrix ...
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Saturday, April 2, 2016

Database update plus Predatory Dinosaurs of the World with phylogenetic nomenclature

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Hey fellow 80s kids!  Like me, you probably grew up with Paul's (1988) Predatory Dinosaurs of the World as your first serious non-techni...
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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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