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Potential for Powered Flight Neared by Most Close Avialan Relatives, but Few Crossed Its Thresholds

Pei, R.; Pittman, M.; Goloboff, P. A.; Dececchi, T. A.; Habib, M. B.; Kaye, T. G.; Larsson, H. C. E.; Norell, M. A.; Brusatte, S. L.; Xu, X. (2020)

Citation

Pei, R.; Pittman, M.; Goloboff, P. A.; Dececchi, T. A.; Habib, M. B.; Kaye, T. G.; Larsson, H. C. E.; Norell, M. A.; Brusatte, S. L.; Xu, X. (2020). Potential for Powered Flight Neared by Most Close Avialan Relatives, but Few Crossed Its Thresholds. Current Biology 30(20): 4033-4046.e8. Elsevier BV. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.105

Cited by genera

  • Archaeopteryx

    Recovered most close avialan relatives, including Archaeopteryx, as near-flight-capable basal avialans.

  • Aurornis

    Scores Aurornis as a separate terminal and recovers the anchiornithine paravians as the earliest-diverging avialan clade.

  • Balaur

    Large paravian phylogeny recovered Balaur as a velociraptorine dromaeosaurid.

  • Bambiraptor

    Recovered Bambiraptor as an outlying basal eudromaeosaur, sister to remaining Eudromaeosauria.

  • Dakotaraptor

    Recovered Dakotaraptor as a velociraptorine.

  • Linheraptor

    Paravian phylogeny recovering Linheraptor as a velociraptorine.

  • Luanchuanraptor

    Paravian phylogeny recovering Luanchuanraptor as a velociraptorine.

  • Mahakala

    Recovered Mahakala as the earliest-diverging dromaeosaurid.

  • Neuquenraptor

    Scored Neuquenraptor and Unenlagia as one terminal.

  • Shanag

    Recovered Shanag as the sister of Microraptorinae plus Eudromaeosauria.

  • Sinusonasus

    Recovered Sinusonasus within Sinovenatorinae.

  • Xiaotingia

    Recovered Xiaotingia among close avialan relatives near powered flight threshold.

  • Xixiasaurus

    Recovered Xixiasaurus with Byronosaurus.

Cited by clades

  • Anchiornithidae

    Large paravian phylogenetic analysis recovering Anchiornithidae as earliest-diverging avialan clade.

  • Deinonychosauria

    Recovered Deinonychosauria as the sister of Avialae, with low group support.

  • Saurornitholestinae

    Did not recover Saurornitholestinae; placed Saurornitholestes and Bambiraptor as the earliest-diverging eudromaeosaurs, their order varying with weighting scheme.

  • Scansoriopterygidae

    Included scansoriopterygids in its analysis and refers to them as non-paravian pennaraptorans, leaving Yi out of its flight-parameter estimates.