RE: *Microraptor* the biplane: published

[Michael Mortimer <mickey_mortimer111@msn.com>]

Anyone notice Chatterjee and Templin assign Microraptor amd Pedopenna to 
Dromaeosauria in the cladogram?  Is this the first time the taxon has been 
published?
I liked how they didn't pretend Cryptovolans didn't exist. ;)
I also liked Vaier et al.'s paper on acrocoracoid musculature.  It was such 
a relief to see accurate deinonychosaur pectoral girdles used 
(Sinornithoides and Sinornithosaurus) instead of an old Ostrom Deinonychus 
reconstruction.

Mickey Mortimer

> From: David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
> Reply-To: david.marjanovic@gmx.at
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: *Microraptor* the biplane: published
> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:50:54 +0100
>
> Apparently free PDF here: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/0609975104v1. Of 
> course, *Microraptor* is just assumed to have used phugoid gliding, and its 
> hip anatomy is not mentioned but just inferred from phylogenetic 
> bracketing, but it's still a good paper.
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