In a message dated 5/19/03 12:57:22 PM Pacific Daylight Time, david.marjanovic@gmx.at writes: << I just wonder what *Jixiangornis* is. Sounds like *Shenzhouraptor* plus keel. >> They're pretty close. Phyletic analysis of Jixiangornis in its initial paper places it between Shenzhouraptor and Confuciusornithidae (for whatever that's worth).