The least read page of any website, but here in case someone's bored
enough to glance at it.
I'm Mickey Mortimer, an amateur paleontologist who holds a Bachelors
of Science in Earth and Space Science: Biology Option from the
University of Washington. I study coelurosaurian phylogeny in
particular, though I'm interested in other dinosaurs and zoological
phylogeny in general. I am responsible for the maniraptoromorph
analysis in Hartman et al.'s (2019) description of Hesperornithoides,
and hope to expand that analysis to other ornithodirans and more crown
Aves in the future. Other research interests include establishing
an objective resource for theropod character scores, increasing
awareness of the lack of thorough scoring in many phylogenetic
analyses, advocating a lumper-style approach to Mesozoic dinosaur
taxonomy with emphasis on individual variation, and defending a theory
of nomenclature that values the principle of priority over specimen
completeness.
Publications-
Hartman, Mortimer, Wahl, Lomax and Lovelace, 2017. New information on a
paravian theropod from the Morrison Formation. Journal
of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts. 126.
Mortimer, 2017. Comment
(Case 3700) — A statement against the proposed designation of Diplodocus carnegii Hatcher, 1901
as the type species of Diplodocus
Marsh, 1878 (Dinosauria, Sauropoda). The Bulletin of Zoological
Nomenclature. 73(2-4), 129-131. DOI: 10.21805/bzn.v73i2.a14
Hartman, Mortimer and Lovelace, 2018. A testable
macroevolutionary framework for character acquisition in the origin of
avian flight. Journal
of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts. 142.
Mortimer, Gardner, Marjanović and Dececchi, 2018. Ornithoscelida,
Phytodinosauria, Saurischia: Testing the effects of misscores in
matrices on basal dinosaur phylogeny. Journal
of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts. 187.
Hartman, Mortimer, Wahl, Lomax, Lippincott and Lovelace, 2019. A new
paravian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of North America supports a
late acquisition of avian flight. PeerJ. 7:e7247. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.7247
See also How
to add your taxon to the Lori analysis on my blog.
Souza-Júnior, Candeiro, Vidal, Brusatte and Mortimer, 2023.
Abelisauroidea (Theropoda, Dinosauria) from Africa: A review of the
fossil record. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 63, e202363019. DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2023.63.019
See also New
data on African abelisaurs for specimens that didn't make the
published review.
Contact Info-
Mickey_Mortimer111@msn.com
Therizinosaurus128@gmail.com
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mickey-Mortimer
https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6367-6745