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Bird analysis update: Data matrix online
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0000265/cladogram.htm
Complete with character list, comments and stepmatrices. Naturally I would
be grateful if anyone looked for mistakes in it or suggested more
characters. (But don't feel obliged, nothing is in any way urgent!)
Character 67 is new (from the *Pedopenna* paper). Despite its textbook
distribution (1 for short-tailed birds, *Archaeopteryx*, *Rahonavis*,
*Shenzhouraptor* and *Jixiangornis*, 0 for the rest, including
Scansoriopterygidae and *Yandangornis*), the long-tailed bird clade
(excluding *Yandangornis*, but including Scansoriopterygidae, *Microraptor*,
"basal Troodontidae" and even *Caudipteryx*) stays as strong as ever. That
said, the strict consensus is still grass, even when the taxa most prone to
jumping are deleted.