Body size and evolutionary rate analyses reveal complex evolutionary history of Alvarezsauria

Citation

Meso, J. G.; Pol, D.; Chiappe, L.; Qin, Z.; Díaz-Martínez, I.; Gianechini, F.; Apesteguía, S.; Makovicky, P. J.; Pittman, M. (2024). Body size and evolutionary rate analyses reveal complex evolutionary history of Alvarezsauria. Cladistics 41(2): 135-155. Wiley. doi:10.1111/cla.12600

Cited by genera

• Achillesaurus
• Alnashetri

  Included Alnashetri in its alvarezsaur analysis.

• Aorun

  Included Aorun in its analysis of alvarezsaurian relationships.

• Ceratonykus

  Included Ceratonykus in its alvarezsaur analysis.

• Haplocheirus

  Bearing on the contested alvarezsauroid affinity of Haplocheirus.

• Heptasteornis

  Found Heptasteornis an unstable taxon and pruned it from the reduced consensus.

• Nemegtonykus

  Found Nemegtonykus unstable and treated it as a junior synonym of Mononykus.

• Shishugounykus

  Recovered Shishugounykus as the earliest-diverging member of the group.

• Tugulusaurus

  Recovered Tugulusaurus within a Bannykus plus Tugulusaurus plus Xiyunykus clade.

• Xiyunykus

  Places Xiyunykus "from the upper section of the Barremian–Aptian Tugulu Group".

Cited by clades

• Alvarezsauroidea

  Recovered Alvarezsauria within Maniraptoriformes with Bremer support of 3 and jackknife of 80%, and as its earliest-diverging clade with Bremer support of 1 and jackknife below 50%.

• Ornithomimosauria

  Treats an early-diverging maniraptoriform position for Ornithomimosauria as the prevailing view, recovering Alvarezsauria in that position instead.

• Patagonykinae

  Recovered Patagonykinae in its comprehensive alvarezsaur analysis.