Re: paraphyletic Dromaeosauridae (Variraptor)

["Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>]

Dear All,
     Decided that perhaps Variraptor (and Pyroraptor?) might belong with 
the "utahraptorines", or maybe even slightly more primitive (as show below).
     Coded the main dromaeosaurids (sensu stricto) together in one clade 
(clade 3A-3B), although my intuition is that dromaeosaurines are more 
primitive than velociraptorines (as I coded it earlier).
    And moved the problematic Bambiraptor up closer to them.  Think I'll 
mull over this topology for a while:

Dromaeosauridae
  1  Variraptor (and Pyroraptor?)
  2  Achillobator
  B  Utahraptor
  3  Dromaeosaurinae
  B  Velociraptorinae
  ?  Bambiraptor
  4  Sinornithosaurus
  5  Microraptor
  6  Unenlagia
  7  Rahonavis
  8  {{AVES}}

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