> Anyone notice Chatterjee and Templin assign Microraptor amd Pedopenna to > Dromaeosauria in the cladogram? Is this the first time the taxon has been > published?
Certainly -- and note that this name is not marked as new or explained at all in the figure itself, the legend, or the text. I guess it's a mistake, not an intentionally new name.
Didn't he use it in The Rise of the Birds? My memory's a bit hazy, but....
I think it's a good idea, since everyone says "dromaeosaur", anyway. The Dromaeosauridae would then be a subclade of that: the final common ancestor of Dromaeosaurus albertensis and Velociraptor mongoliensis, plus all descendants (thereby most likely excluding microraptorians and unenlagiines). -- Mike Keesey