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, May 30, 2020

It's finally January 1, 200n and Phylonyms is published!

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Ah the PhyloCode, the so-called future of biological nomenclature whose release has always kept on slipping ever more distantly into the fut...
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Monday, March 16, 2020

What is Oculudentavis if it's not a theropod?

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In my last post, I argued the recently described Oculudentavis (Xing et al., 2020) is not a theropod.  So what is it?  To answer that questi...
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Thursday, March 12, 2020

Oculudentavis is not a theropod

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Hi all.  This week we got the announcement of a tiny theropod skull in Myanmar amber, which was bound to happen eventually as amazing finds ...
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Monday, January 20, 2020

Details on Teinurosaurus and random musings

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Hi all.  When updating The Theropod Database I noticed my entry for Teinurosaurus is pathetically bad- wrong authors, wrong age, wrong size,...
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Thursday, January 2, 2020

Happy New Year 2020

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Hi all.  A Theropod Database update is online, with the main additions being troodontid information and info from the Hayashibara Museum of...
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Thursday, August 22, 2019

Therizinosaurs in the Lori matrix

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Next up are therizinosaurs.  These are one of the best analyzed clades because I incorporated all of Zanno's (2010) characters, which is...
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Monday, August 19, 2019

Alvarezsaurs in the Lori matrix

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This time our topology is-   I provide a new definition for Alvarezsauroidea that adds Therizinosaurus as an external specifier since I ...
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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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