The phylogenetic affinities and morphological peculiarities of the bird-like dinosaur Borogovia gracilicrus from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia

Citation

Cau, A.; Madzia, D. (2021). The phylogenetic affinities and morphological peculiarities of the bird-like dinosaur Borogovia gracilicrus from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. PeerJ 9: e12640. PeerJ. doi:10.7717/peerj.12640

Cited by genera

• Borogovia

  Reassessed Borogovia and recovered it as the sister taxon to Troodontinae.

• Daliansaurus

  Recovered Daliansaurus outside Sinovenatorinae.

• Fukuivenator

  Recovered Fukuivenator as the earliest paravian.

• Jianianhualong

  Recovered Jianianhualong outside Sinovenatorinae.

• Ningyuansaurus

  Phylogenetic affinities study recovered Ningyuansaurus as a basal troodontid under equal weighting.

• Philovenator

  Recovered Philovenator within Troodontinae with Linhevenator.

• Pyroraptor

  Placed Pyroraptor as a basal dromaeosaurid.

• Sinusonasus

  Recovered Sinusonasus as the sister of Sinornithoides.

• Urbacodon

  Found Urbacodon a wildcard within Troodontidae.

• Variraptor

  Includes Variraptor as a pruned terminal ("k" in Fig. 6) whose alternative positions all fall within Unenlagiinae.

• Xixiasaurus

  Recovered Xixiasaurus within Troodontinae, as the sister of Zanabazar plus Saurornithoides.

Cited by clades

• Caudipteridae

  Did not recover the family; Caudipteryx is the sister of Microvenator.

• Deinonychosauria

  Recovered troodontids closer to birds; the traditional Deinonychosauria costs 12 steps.

• Scansoriopterygidae

  Recovered Scansoriopterygidae within Oviraptorosauria, consistently across the unweighted and all implied-weighting analyses.