Re: Falcarius utahensis

[Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Mickey Mortimer wrote:

>                   `--+--+--+--Microraptor gui
>                      |  |  `--+--Microraptor zhaoianus
>                      |  |     `--Cryptovolans

This is no surprise if these three turn out to be one and the same species.

>                            `--+--+--Patagopteryx
>                               |  `--Parvicursor

_Parvicursor_ leapfrogs quite a few nodes to get here - out of the 
Alvarezsauridae and right next to _Patagopteryx_.  Very interesting.

> The mess between carnosaurs and tyrannoraptorans is cleaning up, with only
> basal tyrannosaurs, two coelurids and Therizinosaurus left there.

What's pulling _Therizinosaurus_ out of the Maniraptora, away from the other 
segnosaurs?

Cheers

Tim