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Bird analysis update 3: reweighting
The strict consensus (1025 trees, length 66988) differs from the one in
update 2 (reweighted) only in:
--+--*Microraptor*
|--basal Troodontidae
`--+--*Archaeopteryx*
`--+--*Rahonavis*
|--*Shenzhouraptor*
`--*Jixiangornis*
--+--*Sapeornis*
`--+--*Omnivoropteryx*
`--+--*Yandangornis*
`--Pygostylia
--+--*Apsaravis*
`--+--*Songlingornis*
|--*Gansus*
`--+--Hesperornithes
`--+--*Ichthyornis*
`--*Anas*
The majrule tree differs from the above only in:
--100--*Enantiornis*
`--64--*Eoalulavis*
|--*Soroavisaurus*
|--81--*Avisaurus*
| `--*Vescornis*
`--100--*Neuquenornis*
`--*Cuspirostrisornis*
The Adams consensus differs from both only in:
--+--*Enantiornis*
|--+--*Soroavisaurus*
| `--+--*Avisaurus*
| `--*Vescornis*
`--+--*Eoalulavis*
`--+--*Neuquenornis*
`--*Cuspirostrisornis*
OK. As long as no new taxa are discovered, and as long as I can't find any
more characters that aren't constant for Enantiornithes, I won't try to make
it any better than that. (I didn't code *Aberratiodontus* because the
surfaces of the bones, and with them all processes and incisures and so on,
are largely missing, and the photos are rather bad. Others, like
*Largirostrisornis*, coded identically to taxa in the matrix except for the
position of question marks _and_ are badly described.) I'll just put some
(or perhaps all) of this stuff on my website.