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, April 28, 2018

Lori paper submitted

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Hi all.  With that juicy tagline, I'd like to restart regular blog posts here.  It took almost seven years to complete after I joined th...
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Monday, February 5, 2018

Is Eogranivora's pelvis misinterpreted?

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We have another new Jehol bird, this one previously misidentified as Hongshanornis by Zheng et al. (2011).  Zheng et al. (2018) describe it ...
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Sunday, December 31, 2017

Happy New Years and sorry for the hiatus

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So 2018 is upon us, and this blog and the Database have been bereft of updates since Summer.  What gives?  Well, I've finally been doing...
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Monday, July 24, 2017

Theropod Database pilfered again? Teihivenator edition

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Back when I was sorting through obscure theropod species, I noticed the case of "Laelaps" macropus .  Ignored for almost a century...
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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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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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