Matrix 3.2

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

Strange that I didn't get the idea of looking at the pelvis of *Longipteryx*
http://www.scichina.com/ky/0111/kyfm11.stm earlier. It seems to have the
birdlike condition (the caudal sacral vertebrae have longer transverse
processes than the cranial ones, and what is visible of the ilia seems to
indicate the same). So I split character 6 into 3 new ones at last.
Unfortunately the pdf http://211.101.137.89/protect/2001/ky/0111/ky0945.pdf,
to which I surprisingly have access, doesn't get explicit about the shape of
the ilia. *Longipteryx* also appears to have proximally expanded mtIII, but
that's not completely clear from the photo and not mentioned in the pdf.
Pelvis of *Bambiraptor* coded after photos that some listmembers kindly sent
me :-)
Pelvis of oviraptorids coded after the cover of
        Michael Novacek: Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs, Anchor
Books/Doubleday 1996
Pelvis of *Nomingia* coded after
        Rinchen Barsbold, Philip J. Currie, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Halszka
Osmólska, Khishigjaw [???] Tsogtbaatar, Mahito Watabe: A pygostyle from a
non-avian theropod, Nature 403, 155f. (13 January 2000)
The 45° in character 7 are a guess, but there is a morphological gap
somewhere around there. Same for the 1.5 times in character 8 where the gap
is even bigger.

Let's see whether 33 characters are better than 31... :-)

1. Pubic apron more than one-third the length of the pubis (0), shorter or
absent (1)
2. Pubis not (0) smoothly convex over its entire length including the
foot/boot (1)
3. Obturator process on ischium present (0), absent (1)
4. Ischial symphysis present (0), absent (1)
5. 5 or less (0), 6 or more (1) sacral vertebrae
6. Space between ilia at the narrowest place 4 times or less (0), 5 times as
broad as the neural spines or more (1)
7. Ilia just in front of the acetabula inclined sagittally by less (0), more
than 45° (1)
8. Pelvis at its caudal end less (0), more than 1.5 times as broad as at its
cranial end (1)
9. Antitrochanter absent (0), small (1), large (2) (ordered)
10. Extra exit for V1 nerve absent (0), present (1)
11. Quadrate single-(0), double-headed (1)
12. Inflated parasphenoid capsule absent (0), present (1)
13. Inflated basisphenoid, pneumatically excavated internally: absent (0);
present (1)
14. Contact between jugals and postorbitals present (0), absent (1)
15. Ascending process of jugal present (0), absent (1)
16. 2 (0), 0 (1), 1 (2) ridge(s) on the nasals
17. Premaxillary teeth serrated (0), unserrated (1)
18. Maxillary and dentary teeth serrated (0), unserrated (1)
19. Constriction between tooth and crown absent (0), present (1)
20. Coronoid II = supradentary = intercoronoid present (0), absent (1)
21. Mt III proximal end width subequal to II and IV (0), narrower or absent
(1), broader (2)
22. Mt III not (0) expanded (1) in its distal third
23. Mt II and IV don't (0) touch (1) at their cranial proximal ends,
excluding III from view
24. Trochanteric crest divided (0), undivided (1)
25. Tail : femur ratio over (0), under (1) 3.5
26. Leg length : tail length ratio under 0.45 (0), in between (1), above 0.8
(2)
27. over 45 (0), 26 -- 39 (1), 25 or less (2) caudal vertebrae
28. Pygostyle absent (0), present (1)
29. Tail stiffened distally (0), distally and in the middle, but mobile at
the base (1), mobile throughout its length (save a pygostyle) (2)
30. Pre-, postzygapophyses and chevrons not (0) extended into long rods that
stiffen the tail (1)
31. Caudal pneumatization absent (0), occurring (1)
32. Distal caudal vertebrae subequal in length to proximal ones (0), 130% or
longer (1), shorter than the proximal ones (2)
33. Ratio of height of neural canal in dorsal vertebrae to height of cranial
articular face less (0), more (1) than 0.40

p = polymorphism
u = unapplicable

00000 -000- -00-0 -1000 -0000 00000 0?- Compsognathidae
10--- --00- ----- --000 ---1- ---00 0-- *Bagaraatan*
00010 10000 00000 00000 10000 01011 p10 Dromaeosauridae
00000 100-- -0-00 0000- 10000 01011 01- *Bambiraptor*
00010 1-00- 000-0 -1000 100-0 1-011 01- *Sinornithosaurus*
0-0?0 1-0--- ----- -1p1- 100-0 12011 -1- *Microraptor*
00000 10000 000-0 011?1 10000 22010 01- *Archaeopteryx*
00011 -000- ----- ----- 00010 1--10 011 *Rahonavis*
0p000 01001 00100 20000 11100 11000 000 Tyrannosauroidea
0000p 010?1 01100 ?1111 11000 11000 000 Ornithomimosauria
0-001 --001 01100 ?1p1- 11110 11-10 0?0 Troodontidae
01001 010?1 10100 puuu1 10001 21020 120 Oviraptoridae
01001 0101- -0--- -uuu1 1110- ---20 120 Caenagnathidae
010?0 --011 10-00 -1u1- 10001 22?20 02- *Caudipteryx*
010-1 0101- ----- ----- ----1 22120 12- *Nomingia*
0?--- --0-- ----- -001- 000-1 11-20 -0- *Protarchaeopteryx*
0-00p --021 -0100 1u011 00001 21-20 020 Segnosauria
10--1 0112- -0011 -u--- 1111- ----0 --1 *Avimimus*
00101 ---2- 10011 1111- 00001 21-20 1p1 Alvarezsauridae
----- ----- ----- -u--- 20011 2---0 -1- *Yandangornis*
10111 01121 100p0 11111 20011 22120 -21 Pygostylia

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