Tag Archives: ontogeny

Nano Keeps on Slipping, Slipping…

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Jaime A. Headden

So much has been written about Nanotyrannus, a catch-up article is hardly necessary. Indeed, many have been written, some published. The history of the name, and of the specimen that underlies it, is well-known. It behooves us, instead, to look … Continue reading →

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Oviraptorids of Southern China

Posted on November 29, 2013 by Jaime A. Headden

(This is a brief post. I am still working on other projects, and new stuff that interests me keeps coming out!) Eventually, a review topic will have to be done to work on these guys. There are now quite a … Continue reading →

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“Toroceratops” Matters, as an Open Discussion

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Jaime A. Headden

So there’s this debate, which I may have discussed — more than once, twice, or thrice — before, in which it is argued that the taxa Triceratops and Torosaurus represent young adult and old adult representatives of the same species. … Continue reading →

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The Squirrel Imitator

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Jaime A. Headden

Ok, so I get why Oliver Rauhut and crew named their new theropod dinosaur, a purported megalosauroid, Sciurumimus albersdoerferi. It has all the appreciative charm of being cute, fluffy, and the specimen is preserved with its tail up and over … Continue reading →

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The Thing I Like About “Toroceratops”

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Jaime A. Headden

Let me first apologize for using “Toroceratops.” There is no such taxon, but the name is being used to describe the debate that is now raging through the dinosaur paleontological circuit, and it’s too catchy not to use. Now, on … Continue reading →

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I Cannot Compel to Reason: Triceratops, We Done It Again

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Jaime A. Headden

Earlier this year, Andy Farke took the opportunity of  a remodel to assess the skull of that classic of classic dinosaurs, Nedoceratops hatcheri. Formally named by Richard Swan Lull (completing a monograph that first OC Marsh had begun but uncompleted … Continue reading →

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The Saga of Raptorex

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Jaime A. Headden

…Continues.

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When Flat-Head Met Dome-y

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Jaime A. Headden

One of the most interesting aspects of ornithischian phylogeny has been (alongside whether heterodontosaurs are ornithopods or whatever) is the nature of many pachycephalosaur taxa. Recently, Schott et al. (2003) have done some great detective work in nailing down what … Continue reading →

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Nanotyrannus Nomore!?

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Jaime A. Headden

Nanotyrannus is everyone’s favorite tyrannosaur, as long as it’s right behind the big guy, Tyrannosaurus, itself. It’s been lovingly depicted and aggressively championed by such notable figures as Robert Bakker, and supported less enthusiastically but no less masterfully by Philip … Continue reading →

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Ontogeny and Taxa

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Jaime A. Headden

I’d promised some follow-up posts to two previous ones in which I describe other “issues” I perceived. The first was a continuation of what I felt was wrong about the argument of Scannella and Horner (here) in regards to their … Continue reading →

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