Re: Hongshanornis longicresta

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> I guess *Patagopteryx* and *Vorona* are not in the analysis?

To answer my own question... the supp. inf. is freely accessible, and *V.* 
is in the analysis http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/0507106102/DC1, 
and it's the sister-group of Ornithothoraces, closer to the latter than 
*Confuciusornis*. That's news.

It's also news that Zhou & Zhang managed to get Enantiornithes fully 
resolved in a matrix that is seemingly derived from Clarke's. Here goes:

--+--*Cathayornis yandica* [<sigh>]
  `--+--*Neuquenornis volans*
     `--+--*Gobipteryx minuta*
        `--*Concornis lacustris*

Does not conform to my expectations, whatever that's worth.

*Jeholornis* (<sigh>) is also in the analysis and emerges closer to the 
crown than *Archaeopteryx* but less so than *Sapeornis* -- as expected.

202 characters (not all of them informative!), 23 ingroup taxa plus 
"Dromeosauridae" (sic).

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