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subset of van der Reest and Currie (2017), the BDC results showed Buitreraptor inside the troodontid block of positive correlation rather than inside the dromaeosaurid block, a result also found by Wood (2011). It may be that the inclusion of more unenlagiine taxa in the future could strengthen the evidence for continuity between these two families. Thus, we tentatively suggest that Deinonychosauria may be a holobaramin containing the two monobaramins Dromaeosauridae and Troodontidae. C. Scansoriopterygidae Only one analysis (van der Reest and Currie, 2017) contained scansoriopterygid taxa, and the BDC results of both the paravian subset and the oviraptorosaur subset show scansoriopterygids as not sharing positive correlation with any other taxa (Figs. 58 and 60). In fact, they are negatively correlated with some troodontids and oviraptorosaurs in these BDC plots. Additionally, the 3D MDS results for these analyses never show them clustering with any other taxa (Figs. 59 and 61). Based on these results, we suggest that Scansorioptyergidae is a holobaramin. Our conclusion is consistent with the BDC results for the paravian subset of data in Wood (2011, Fig. 3). Epidendrosaurus is the only scansoriopterygid included in the analysis, and it does not share any correlation with any other taxa. D. Oviraptorosauria Oviraptorosaurs are very unique animals as evidenced by their bizarre, fore-shortened, beaked faces, and their uniqueness is evident in these baraminological analyses. They do not correlate positively with any non-oviraptorosaur taxa in the BDC results of any of the pennaraptoran or oviraptorosaur subset analyses (Figs. 30, 34, 50, and 60). The BDC results for the oviraptorosaur dataset (Lamanna et al. 2014) show negative correlation or no correlation separating oviraptorosaurs from the outgroup (Fig. 64). The 3D MDS results consistently show oviraptorosaurs as not clustering with non-oviraptorosaur taxa (Figs. 31, 35, 51, 61, and 65). Thus, we suggest that Oviraptorosauria is an apobaramin. McLain et al. ◀ Feathered dinosaurs reconsidered ▶ 2018 ICC 495 Figure 45. MDS results of the Falcarius + non-maniraptoran coelurosaur subset of the Lee et al. (2014) dataset in two views ( left, right ). Colors: turquoise – Therizinosauria; green – Alvarezsauroidea; blue – Ornithomimosauria; brown – “basal” Coelurosauria; purple – Tyrannosauroidea. Figure 44. BDC of the Falcarius + non-maniraptoran coelurosaur subset of the Lee et al. (2014) dataset. Black squares indicate significant positive correlation, whereas open circles indicate significant negative correlation.