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Re: paraphyletic Dromaeosauridae

Okay,
I'll play it conservative for the time being, by making Pyroraptor more derived than the "utahraptorine" clade, and making Dromaeosaurinae a derived member of the next clade down (= "up" in most cladograms).
Still not sure what to do with Unenlagia though.
-------- Ken
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Dromaeosauridae

   1  Achillobator
   B  Utahraptor
   2  Pyroraptor (and Variraptor??)
   3  Bambiraptor
   B  Velociraptorinae
   C  Dromaeosaurinae
   4  Sinornithosaurus
   ?  Unenlagia
   5  Microraptor
   6  Rahonavis
   7  {{AVES}}

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