Mickey Mortimer

I honestly think this paper needs a lot of work to be a valuable addition to our knowledge. Perhaps most troubling is the lack of any real redescription, which is the title of...

Hi again Chase. I recently discovered that Yun (2017) copied some of my commentary on macropus from The Theropod Database without attribution in his paper- http://theropoddatabase...

Abstract- "It is related to the sympatric Diplodocus". Isn't every organism? Well, that lived at the same time as Diplodocus anyway. Pg9-10- The comparison to brachiosaurs see...

I noticed table B wrongly says "Vertebral element" instead of Appendicular element, Pedal element, etc.. In Table B, a right MTIII is listed instead of whatever phalangeal fragmen...

I'd only like to note that the referral of any or all Macroolithus yaotunensis to Heyuannia has no published support. Cheng et al. (2008) referred their eggs to "Heyuannia huangi...

While I like the anatomical section, the phylogenetic section has a major issue that renders its results suspect. The authors state "we did not proceed to calculate a maximum agre...

I honestly think this paper needs a lot of work to be a valuable addition to our knowledge. Perhaps most troubling is the lack of any real redescription, which is the title of...

First, I should note this manuscript is a perfect example of what Makovicky and Dyke (2001) critiqued in their paper "Naive falsification and the origin of birds", where a single s...