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What makes Archaeopteryx a better bird than Microraptor gui or Cryptovolans on an aside, has C. pauli been reclassified as a synonym for Microraptor?
New Archaeopteryx fossil provides further insight into bird, dinosaur evolution - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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In other words, Feduccia was well aware that Cryptovolans/Microraptor gui was feathered – admitted it even – and *still* said that the feathers drawn on M. zhaoianus, possibly the same *species*, were a fabrication!
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Since it is probably a synonym of Cryptovolans pauli (which itself is possibly a junior synonym of Microraptor zhaoianus; Senter et al. 2004, this is exactly the critter Feduccia was refering to with the …asymmetric flight feathers preserved on the wing and near the hind limbs of a dromaeosaurid (Czerkas et al.
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Norell et al. 2002 published a little blurb on BPM 1 3-13 in Nature, which served as the holotype for Czerkas et al. 2002’s Cryptovolans.
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