Re: Coelurosaur Analysis update, with Graciliraptor, Atrociraptor, Sinusonasus,

["Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Mickey Mortimer wrote:

> - Archaeopterygids and scansoriopterygids are deinonychosaurs,

A nit-picking nomenclatural observation: Aves (or Avialae) is defined such 
as to include _Archaeopteryx_.  Therefore, under your phylogeny, 
Deinychosauria would be a clade within the Aves; and _Yandangornis_, 
_Sapeornis_ and _Omnivoropteryx_ would be excluded from the bird clade, 
which is anchored in _Archaeopteryx_ and _Vultur_.

I am very surprised that _Therizinosaurus_ and alvarezsaurids were pulled 
together, considering the former has enormous forelimbs, and the latter have 
very short forelimbs.


Tim

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