Re: Testing Unenlagiinae

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

Mickey, sprinkle some citations over it, replace "disturbing" by "indicative 
of a typographic or similar error", and GET THAT PUBLISHED. That's what I 
and my thesis supervisor* are doing right now, with a much, much smaller 
matrix that isn't even on dinosaurs.

Surely in the USA it's like in France, where whether you're hired for any 
post depends on your impact factor? And that, presumably, minus the insider 
connections that can prove very helpful in France?

* It was his idea, but I'm doing most of the work, so he wants me to be the 
first author.

> Variraptor (based only on the holotype dorsal and sacrum) could
> be a dromaeosaurid or an oviraptorid, so is not shown here.

That alone is worth publishing.

> |--+--Alvarezsaurus
> |  `--+--+--Pedopenna
> |     |  `--Yandangornis
> |     `--+--Patagonykus
> |        `--+--Mononykus
> |           `--Shuvuuia

Wow. *Yandangornis* getting stranger and stranger, and *Pedopenna* revealing 
unknown sides...

> `--+--+--Jinfengopteryx
>   |  |--Epidendrosaurus
>   |  `--+--+--Archaeopteryx
>   |     |  `--Wellnhoferia
>   |     `--+--Jeholornis
>   |        `--+--Sapeornis
>   |           `--+--Confuciusornis
>   |              `--+--Protopteryx
>   |                 `--Yanornis

Hey, *Jinfengopteryx* is back being a bird! I feel betrayed! ;-)

>   `--+*-IGM 100/1005
>      |--+--Sinovenator
>      |  `--+--Neuquenraptor
>      |     `--+--Mei
>      |        `--+*-Urbacodon
>      |           |*-IGM 100/44
>      |           |--Byronosaurus
>      |           |--Sinusonasus
>      |           `--+--Sinornithoides
>      |              `--+--Troodon
>      |                 `--+--Saurornithoides mongoliensis
>      |                    `--Saurornithoides junior

*Neuquenraptor* back as a troodontid as announced before it got its name...

>      `--+*-Ornithodesmus
>         |--+--Mahakala
>         |  `--+--Unenlagia
>         |     `--Rahonavis
>         `--+--Buitreraptor
>            `--+--Archaeornithoides
>               |--Shanag
>               `--+--+--Yixianosaurus
>                  |  `--+--Graciliraptor
>                  |     `--+--Sinornithosaurus
>                  |        `--+--NGMC 91
>                  |           `--Microraptor

Flying dromaeosaurids all over the place, and a home for *Yixianosaurus*... 
Are both species of *Microraptor* in there?

>                  `--+*-Pyroraptor
>                     |--Bambiraptor
>                     `--+*-"Koreanosaurus"
>                        |--Adasaurus
>                        `--+--Saurornitholestes
>                           |--Velociraptor
>                           `--+--Tsaagan
>                              |--Hulsanpes
>                              `--+--Deinonychus
>                                 `--+--Atrociraptor
>                                    `--+--Achillobator
>                                       `--+--Utahraptor
>                                          `--Dromaeosaurus

*Hulsanpes* a dromaeosaurine, and most other dromaeosaurids sensu stricto 
too... but *Adasaurus* not... fascinating. :-)