However, noasaurids differ from velocisaurids in having
> a specialized raptorial ungueal structure.
But wouldn't the condition in Noasaurus be autapomorphic, thus NOT helping
to place 'velocisaurids' together to its exclusion
I would add that a specialized raptorial pedal ungual appears to be
primitive for the Eumaniraptora/Paraves, but was lost, reduced or modified
several times in this clade (e.g., by the troodontid _Borogovia_; the
dromaeosaurid _Adasaurus; the basal avians _Archaeopteryx_ and
_Shenzhouraptor_; pygostylian birds).