Re: Arctometatarsalia and Alvarezsauria

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

> Perle, Clark, and Norell, in 1993, described the taxon
> *Mononykus* _after_ Bonaparte described *Alvarezsaurus* (1993 compared to
> 1991), incidentally creating the monotypic Mononykidae in the process,

That's the *Mononykus* and not the *Mononychus* paper, is it?

> Non-*Alvarezsaurus* and *Patagonykus* alvarezsaurids are now called
> Mononykinae, though I beleive this name has not actually been coined in
> the literature.
> [...]
> This led to 1998 with
> Clark, Norell, and Chiappe describing the most recent taxon,
> *Shuvuuia*, which was immediately referred to the Mononykidae,

No, to Alvarezsauridae. The name Mononykinae has been coined and defined in
this paper, and I've seen Parvicursorinae (undefined) somewhere else before.