Nicholas Gardner wrote-
Neocoelurosauria
> This is an unpublished
name. The correct term for this clade (Maniraptora + Ornithomimus) is
Maniraptoriformes.
Indeed!!
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`--Tyrannoraptora
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|--Eumaniraptora
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|?-Troodontidae
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`--+--Aves
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`--Dromaeosauroidea
(implied in Matthew & Brown,
> In this case, your Tyrannoraptora clade
(Tyrannosaurus + Neornithes) would actually be termed Paraves (closer
to
> Neornithes than to Oviraptor).
Not
quite. Paraves is a stem-based group, Tyrannoraptora is a node
based. In the phylogeny presented here, Paraves would be a stem-based
clade represented solely by the node-based Tyrannoraptora. However,
should there be a taxon found closer to the tyrannoraptors than to
Oviraptor, but outside Tyrannoraptora, it woulds still be
paravian.
> Eumaniraptora (Deinonychus + Neornithes)
would be one step higherthan you have it,
> uniting Aves and
"Dromaeosauroidea".
Yes.
> Why do you use "Dromaeosauroidea" when
Deinonychosauria (everything closer
> to Deinonychus than to Neornithes) would
work well here?