Re: Aurornis, new Jurassic avialan dinosaur from China

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

Biggest surprise in the paper: *Balaur* is a bird, the sister-group of 
Avebrevicauda.

*Rahonavis* and *Shenzhouraptor* come out as sister-groups, together forming 
the sister-group to all of the above. Archie is part of a Hennig comb: closest 
to the above is *Xiaotingia*, then *Archaeopteryx*, then *Anchiornis*, then the 
new *Aurornis*. Then comes Troodontidae (within which *Jinfengopteryx* is the 
sister-group to the rest), so birds are officially deinonychosaurs now; then 
comes Dromaeosauridae, then *Eosinopteryx*, and then the scansoriopterygids.