Re: Clarifications of Paul's new DA taxa

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

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Subject: Clarifications of Paul's new DA taxa


> It is interesting that Maryanska et al. in their new Acta Palaeont Pol
paper
> place Oviraptorosaurs (incl avimimids) were even I do not go, in the
> Avebrevicauda above Confuciusornis.

They don't put them closer to other birds than to *Confuciusornis*, they get
them as the sister group to the only pygostylian they included in their
analysis, namely *Confuciusornis*. No need for secondarily long tails, or
for convergently short ones in *C.* and Ornithothoraces or whatever.