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Sunday, 08 February 2015

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Can it be? Even more non-dinosaurian epipophyses? Yes, and this time they’re non-ornithodiran! 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [2015-02-08 17:16:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (121 visits) info
Having given pterosaurs all the glory in two earlier posts, it’s time to move yet further away from the sauropods we know and love, and look at epipophyses outside of Ornithodira. Here, for example, is the basal archosauriform Vancleavea. (Thanks to Mickey Mortimer, whose a comment on an earlier post put us onto this, and various other candidate epipohysis-bearers which

Spinosaurus Revolution, Episodio V: Sigilmassasaurus vs Spinosaurus: una battaglia tafonomica 

Theropoda [2014-09-21 13:19:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info
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[Nota: Questo post era in programma prossimamente, ma un recent commento di Mickey Mortimer mi ha indotto a pubblicarlo ora.] Perché Sigilmassasaurus è stato per quasi venti anni un dinosauro così enigmatico, e solo di recente riconosciuto in modo inequivocabile come essere un sinonimo di Spinosaurus? L'enigma si Sigilmassasaurus deriva nella bizzarra preservazione di tutti i resti a

Molecular constraints with Conrad (2008) 

Why I hate Theropods [2014-04-06 21:11:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (67 visits) info
In preparation for something else, I was interested to see the effects of constraining for the molecular topology produced by Pyron et al. (2013) in a large squamate morphological data set (Conrad, 2008).Instead of using TNT, I employed Wilson's treespace search in PAUP (which is similar to the settings used in TNT by Conrad). Since I was only interested in some quick and dirty results, I limited the iterations to 100. The constraint I used was limited: [...]

The Ajancingenia Affaire: (parziale) soluzione 

Theropoda [2013-12-17 08:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (48 visits) info
Vi ricordate la recente revisione tassonomica di Ingenia? In questo blog, avevo smascherato l'evidente plagio e condotta poco etica dell'autore della revisione, condotta poi analizzata nel dettaglio da Mickey Mortimer, dal cui sito era stato plagiato buona parte del testo presente in quell'articolo. Oggi, esce un Erratum su Zootaxa che si propone di rimediare al misfatto. Tuttavia, tale

Tetanurae Updated: Part 1 

Theropoda [2012-05-20 15:50:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (79 visits) info
Come anticipato da un breve post, alcuni giorni fa è stata pubblicata un'ampia analisi filogenetica avente come oggetto principale i Tetanurae non Coelurosauria (ovvero, tutti i theropodi più vicini agli uccelli che a Ceratosaurus, focalizzandosi sui taxa non più vicini ad Ornithomimus rispetto ad Allosaurus): Carrano et al. (2012). Mickey Mortimer ha parlato in modo dettagliato dei pregi e dei

Ostafrikasaurus, ceratosauro da [dilemma filosofico] Tendaguru 

Theropoda [2012-04-26 23:55:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (84 visits) info
Una discussione di ieri pomeriggio col mio padawan è in parte alla base di questo post, il quale è stato anticipato da un involontario spoiler di Mickey Mortimer nel precedente post dedicato all'interpretazione di Buffetaut (2012) su alcuni denti dal Giurassico Superiore della Tanzania. L'ordine dei due post è inverso a quello reale delle ipotesi, dato che l'interpretazione che discuto oggi fu

In Defense of Dinosaur Revolution 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [2011-09-20 13:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (102 visits) info
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"Gimme a chance, folks!" The Dinosaur Revolution Velociraptor.Consider these two numbers:6,200,000.861,000.They are the number of American households that tuned into the Discovery Channel premieres of Walking With Dinosaurs and Dinosaur Revolution, respectively. What a difference twelve years makes, eh? Walking With Dinosaurs was a ratings monster, not to be toppled from its position as the Discovery Channel's largest ratings earner until just last year, when Life surpassed it. The television [...]

“Taste” Versus “Science” 

The Bite Stuff [2011-03-14 12:24:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (114 visits) info
My recent discussion on the value of “originalism” has led to some interesting comments from respondents Mickey Mortimer and Mike Taylor. As I respect both of them, but disagree, I will post their comments in full below and respond to them in more detail rather than in comments. This gives me an excuse for yet

Mesozoic Miscellany #14 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [2011-01-08 14:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (83 visits) info

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NewsworthinessThe big deal this week is the fifth installment of the revivified Boneyard Blog Carnival. It's hosted by Zach at When Pigs Fly Returns. Thanks for being a terrific host, Zach!At Dinosaur Tracking, Brian Switek asked "Where Have All the Sauropods Gone?" The nation immediately got that Paula Cole song stuck in their head.Darren Naish's Stegosaur Wars posts at Tet Zoo have been fantastic. Start here and move on to part two.In the newest post of his guest series at Archosaur Musings [...]

Mesozoic Miscellany #7 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [2010-11-19 19:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (34 visits) info

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NewsworthinessSome great interviews this week. At the Open Source Paleontologist, Andy Farke has some questions for Mark Witton. Mark discusses his new paper with Mike Habib that reaffirms that the giant pterosaurs could indeed fly, and well. Part one. On the mammalian side of things, Andy also talked to Josh Samuels this week about his Sinocastor research, digging into the relationship of the ancient beaver to its modern relatives.Dave Hone continues his excellent series of paleoart interviews [...]

Quill knobs vs. Intermuscular line 

Dots in Deep Time [2010-09-10 13:40:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (32 visits) info
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Lately Concavenator has caused quite a buzz among the dinosaur researchers. And there is no doubt that there is a lot to talk about regarding it's phylogenetic position and it's relationship and possible synonymy to Becklespinax. It now seems that the discussion has shifted focus to Concavenators quill knobs .To give a brief summary (Ortega et al,2010) in their description of Concavenator noted series of small bony bumbs running in a single line on the ulna and proposed that these are [...]

Ornithomimosauri in Ceratosauria, "elaphrosauri" in Ornithomimosauria e scansoriopterygidi in Oviraptorosauria 

Theropoda [2010-09-08 13:49:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (36 visits) info
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Breve post che informa gli interessati su alcuni test effettuati con Megamatrice sulla plausibilità di ipotesi "eterodosse". Gli spunti derivano da Ville Sinkkonen e Mickey Mortimer. Ricordate "Magnoviraptorosauria"? Bene, l'ipotesi colà definita risultò statisticamente improbabile. Tuttavia, tale improbabilità poteva dipendere prettamente dalla presenza dei Sapeornithidi, chiaramente aviali

What Is A Nomen Oblitum? Not What You Probably Think 

DinoGoss [2010-09-05 07:52:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (48 visits) info
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Above: Illustration of Manospondylus gigas by Matt Martyniuk, copyright.In a previous post, I brought up the taboo subject of Manospondylus gigas, the large Lancian theropod named by E.D. Cope in 1886 and a potential senior synonym of Tyrannosaurus rex. Google "manospondylus" and the first hit is an old Q&A post by Mike Taylor called "So why hasn't Tyrannosaurus been renamed Manospondylus?"Good question!Aside from cultural inertia, the answer Taylor gave is this: "As of 1st January 2000, a [...]

Balaur bondoc: Dodo-Raptor? 

DinoGoss [2010-09-04 01:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (887 visits) info
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Here's a really interesting idea floated by Andrea Cau (with help from Mickey Mortimer, Ville Sinkkonen, Rutger Jansma and Zach Miller) over at his Theropoda blog.Everyone is making a big deal about Balaur bondoc, the apparently double-sickle clawed dromaeosaur. The double sickle idea comes from the very strange nature of the foot (close-up image in the last post, linked above).Above: Fossils of Balaur bondoc reconstructed as a standard dromaeosaur. Credit: PNAS/AP.The first sickle claw is [...]

_Balaur_: More than just a "Double-Sickle-Clawed Raptor"... 

Theropoda [2010-09-01 16:02:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (55 visits) info
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Ricostruzione eterodossa di Balaur, come dromaeosauro "therizinosauro-mimo" insulare adatto a condizioni ambientali semi-aride Questo post è frutto di alcuni scambi di opinioni online con Mickey Mortimer, Ville Sinkkonen, Rutger Jansma e Zach Miller, che ringrazio per gli spunti e i suggerimenti.  Credo che ci sia ancora molto da dire riguardo Balaur (Csiki et al., 2010), oltre al

Serendipaceratops, Again 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [2010-06-17 19:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (29 visits) info

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It's been a week since I last wrote about Serendipaceratops, a glaring problem I'll now correct. A refresher: Serendipaceratops arthurcclarkei is a dinosaur named by Australian paleontologists Mark Rich and Patricia Vickers-Rich based on a single ulna. After seeing a Leptoceratops ulna shown to them by Canadian paleontologist Dale Russell, they decided it represented a neoceratopsian - living tens of millions of years before the other neoceratopsians and really far away from the family's [...]

Recent Triassic Posts at Other Blogs 

Chinleana [2010-06-12 04:44:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (21 visits) info

 Triassic
First, Dr. Hans Sues covers the conclusions of two recent papers on the rise of the dinosaurs in the Triassic: http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2010/06/rise-of-dinosaurs.html Next up, Mickey Mortimer suggests that the indeterminate archosauriform Arctosaurus, known from a single incomplete vertebra from the Late Triassic of Nunavut, Canada may actually be a

New blog on.. theropods 

Why I hate Theropods [2010-01-22 23:05:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (24 visits) info
There's a new blog in the paleoblogosphere. It's unfortunately on theropods, but don't hold that against it. Check out the new blog "The Theropod Database" (http://theropoddatabase.blogspot.com/). You might know the author, Mickey Mortimer, from his posts on the Dinosaur Mailing List and other on-line discussion sites or from his website by the same name. Good luck Mickey and welcome to

Thai One On 

DinoGoss [2009-05-19 19:08:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (27 visits) info
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Here's a blast from the past:If you follow ostrich dinosaurs (and really, who doesn't?), you may have heard of a genus called "Ginnareemimus." This name has been popping up on genus lists enclosed in quotation marks for years. That's because, while the remains were found in Thailand over a decade ago, they have never been described and the name has only cropped up in a caption in some obscure journal published in 2000.Well, this month the paper finally came out, only the name is... wait for [...]
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