The Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Creationism (2018)

E. Maniraptoriformes The BDC results for Makovicky et al . ’s (2004) data matrix, in Weishampel et al . (2004), shows three blocks of positive correlation and two taxa that are not correlated with any other taxa (the alvarezsaurid Shuvuuia and the oviraptorid Citipati , Fig. 25). One block of positive correlation contains the outgroup taxa, one contains ornithomimids, and the final one contains paravians (two dromaeosaurids, a troodontid, and Archaeopteryx ). The paravian block is separated from the ornithomimid block by negative correlation, but no other taxa share any kind of correlation with the outgroup block. Due to the amount of missing data ( i.e., the majority were missing greater than 70% of the character data) only 12 taxa were analyzed. Classical MDS results also show separation between three clusters of taxa, although Citipati appears to be closest to the paravian cluster (Fig. 26). Shuvuuia is positioned far from all other taxa. PCAreflected theseobservationsbut revealedadditional complexity. The high proportion of missing data required the inclusion of any Doran et al. ◀ Dinosaur baraminology ▶ 2018 ICC 410 Figure 2. PCA scores for Baron’s (2018) complete data matrix for the Dinosauria. PC 1 accounts for 32.5% of the variance and PC 3 accounts for 14.6% of the variance. Sauropodomorpha group toward left and Theropods to right. PC 3 separates only ornithischians (bottom cluster).