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Tag Archives: Dinosauria
Revising the Oviraptor Myth
What follows is an historical essay on a subject which was intended for eventual presentation at SVP (here, the second abstract), as part of a projection on research that would resolve something that has never been practically tested. This essay … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Paleontology
Tagged Diet, Dinosauria, molluscivory durophagy, Oviraptorids, Oviraptorosauria, ovophagy, Theropoda
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When Does Morphology Trump Ontogeny?
An outstanding issue among some systematists is the question when, in a given sample, a series of recognized taxa are argued to be an array of successively distant sister taxa versus a reflection of transformation in an ontogenetic series in … Continue reading
Posted in Paleontology, Science Reporting, Taxonomy
Tagged Ceratopsia, Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Triceratops
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Better Know a [Dinosaur] – Elmisaurus rarus
This post won’t have much to do with teeth. This will eventually occur, when I focus on toothy things like Suminia (favorite non-mammalian synapsid) or toothless (and known-jawed but edentulous) in which case we come to the oviraptorosaurs, which are … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Paleontology, Taxonomy
Tagged Caenagnathidae, Dinosauria, Elmisaurus, Oviraptorosauria, Theropoda
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Jaime A. Headden