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Re: the chinese Mesozoic Aves tree



>    `--+--Protopteryx fengningensis
>       |--Longipteryx chaoyangensis
>       |--Jibeinia luanhera
>       |--Eocathayornis walkeri
>       |--Boluochia zhengi
>       `--Ornithothoraces
>          |--Cuspirostrisornis houi
>          |--Eoenantiornis buhleri

Actually... what differences are there between *Eocathayornis* and
*Eoenantiornis*? Sternum shape?
        I'm pretty sure that *Cuspirostrisornis* is an avisaurid or closely
related, and that *Sinornis* is a close relative of that group.

>          |--Liaoningornis longidigitus

Does look euornithine.

>             |  |--Yanornis martini (=Archaeovolans repatriates;

*repatriatus*.

> Archaeoraptor liaoningornis in partim)

"partim" needs no "in".

> A bit low on resolution you say? ;-)
> Well, here's what my in progress analysis has to say about Chinese
Mesozoic
> birds, based on 235 characters.
> Aves
> |--Shenzhouraptor sinensis
> `--+--Omnivoropterygidae
>    |  |--Jixiangornis orientalis
>    |  `--Omnivoropteryx sinousaorum

Slightly confusing...

>    `--+--Yandangornis longicaudus
>       `--Pygostylia
>          |--Confuciusornithiformes
>          |  |--Sapeornis chaoyangensis
>          |  `--Confuciusornithidae
>          |     |--Confuciusornis spp.
>          |     `--Changchengornis hengdaoziensis

This is what left me so speechless that I forgot to reply. *Sapeornis* next
to Confuciusornithidae? How did this happen?

>             `--+--Cuspirostrisornis houi

A very basal position.

>                                  |--+--Liaoningornis longidigitus
>                                  |  `--Songlingornis linghensis

Similar to my analysis (62 characters). :-)

>                                  `--+--Yixianornis grabaui
>                                     `--+--Yanornis martini
>                                        `--Ornithurae

Why not *Y.* and *Y.* in each other's positions?