Viva Neornithine Birds!

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"If accurate, despite the vulnerability of such data to suboptimal rooting, 
this record undermines early anticipations of K?T boundary effects in modern 
orders and an evolutionary timespan in which major divergences of neornithine 
lineages would extend through the early and middle Cenozoic." from Higher-order 
phylogeny of modern birds (Theropoda, Aves: Neornithes) based on comparative 
anatomy. II. Analysis and discussion 
BRADLEY C. LIVEZEY , RICHARD L. ZUSI
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
January 2007 - Vol. 149 Issue 1

Well, I hope not, because this would mean neornithines were special.