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Re: Aurornis, new Jurassic avialan dinosaur from China

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Subject: Re: Aurornis, new Jurassic avialan dinosaur from China
From: Mike Keesey <keesey@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 14:54:55 -0700
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On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 2:19 PM, David Marjanovic
<david.marjanovic@gmx.at> wrote:
>
> Then comes Troodontidae (within which *Jinfengopteryx* is the sister-group to 
> the rest), so birds are officially deinonychosaurs now;

IIRC, the earliest phylogenetic definition for Deinonychosauria is
branch-based, so it's not that birds are deinonychosaurs, but that
troodontids are not.
--
T. Michael Keesey
http://tmkeesey.net/

References:
- Aurornis, new Jurassic avialan dinosaur from China
  - From: Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>
- Re: Aurornis, new Jurassic avialan dinosaur from China
  - From: "David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>

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