Talk:Enantiornithes

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[edit] Status of enantiornithines

Kurochkin (2006) shows the enantiornithines, along with archaeornithines, to be theropods, thereby forming the clade Sauriurae. This means that the clade Enantiornithes is not related to Ornithurae.

Kurochkin, E.N. (2006). Parallel evolution of theropod dinosaurs and birds. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. 85(3): 283-297.

Only if we should take him seriously :o)--MWAK 10:14, 5 March 2007 (UTC)