RE: New Papers

[Jon Barber <augray@sympatico.ca>]

At 05:16 AM 4/5/2006 +0000, Michael Mortimer wrote:
> Jerry Harris wrote-
>
> >    BTW, to ruin the surprise, the "new lineage" isn't named but includes 
> > (_Yanornis_ + (_Yixianornis_ + _Songlingornis_)).
>
> You know, I get it when authors don't want to create new clade names 
> because the clade's especially provisional, or just to protect against an 
> abundance of names, but Yanornithiformes, Yanornithidae and 
> Songlingornithidae already exist.  At SVP 2002, I think Clarke used 
> Yanornithidae for the clade.  I wonder why she didn't follow through in 
> the publication.
> The paper itself is pretty cool, although the data matrix is missing.

It's at 
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/suppl/10.1111/j.1469-7580.2006.00534.x/suppl_file/JOA534_a3.xls


>   One odd thing about Yixianornis is that the cervical centra vary from 
> having partial heterocoely to none at all.  Strange for such a derived bird.
> Updated its codings yesterday.  Now for Dapingfangornis.
>
> Mickey Mortimer