Two minutes of morning rage.
"[...] nearly 100 Sapeornis chaoyangensis specimens and [...] more than two dozen Hongshanornis longicresta specimens"
What!?!Only 2 specimens of *S.* are published, or 4 if we're generous, and only 1 of *H.* is? And yet there are such mind-boggling numbers!?!
Surely everyone remembers how we celebrated the publication of the merely _tenth_ specimen of *Archaeopteryx*?
Yes, I know *Sinornithosaurus* and apparently *Microraptor* are in the same situation. I have personally seen maybe 10 unpublished specimens of those lying around on exhibit in museums in northeastern China. But I didn't know this was the normal state for the entire fauna.
Is anybody working on publishing papers like the Chiappe et al. (1999) confuciusornithid monograph on _any_ of these taxa?