Different placements of oviraptors and alvarezsaurids

Here are cladograms with oviraptors and/or alvarezsaurids within Euparaves.


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4476167/ (Cau et al 2015)

Oviraptors within Euparaves.
Updated dataset of Brusatte et al. (2014).

http://www.nature.com/articles/nature08124.epdf?referrer_access_token=1LIOYM249T2ALXmHhUVXQtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0NAxxXDTxDgb7tt7vNCs5i7CDx_p1E8pIL0dPMGIw0CIZ1LRnUZIDT1a3FIDY_UW4FRwpODRDVwWg-KbK448VK63yIXiGAa_H8fA42yVK8TsNhr_ASjWKKTbM-PJCMVzpKKElR4FEstewHl9DZGaHr9&tracking_referrer=www.nature.com (2009)
Cladogram based on a subset of taxa from Xu et al 2009 study:
Both Alvarezsaurids and Oviraptors within Euparaves.

For details see here.

Cladogram based on all data except Epidexipteryx from Xu et al 2009 study.
Both Alvarezsaurids and Oviraptors within Euparaves.

http://www.nature.com/articles/nature08124.epdf?referrer_access_token=1LIOYM249T2ALXmHhUVXQtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0NAxxXDTxDgb7tt7vNCs5i7CDx_p1E8pIL0dPMGIw0CIZ1LRnUZIDT1a3FIDY_UW4FRwpODRDVwWg-KbK448VK63yIXiGAa_H8fA42yVK8TsNhr_ASjWKKTbM-PJCMVzpKKElR4FEstewHl9DZGaHr9&tracking_referrer=www.nature.com (2009)
Figure S7 of the Xu et al 2009 study using ALL taxa:
Alvarezsaurids within Euparaves.

http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652011000100008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en Angolin and Novas (2011)
http://www.scielo.br/img/revistas/aabc/v83n1/a08fig01m.jpg  Figure 1(B)
Alvarezsaurids within Euparaves

From Agnolín and Novas  (2013):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scansoriopterygidae#Classification

Agnolín and Novas (2013) recovered scansoriopterygids as non-paravian maniraptorans and the sister group to Oviraptorosauria.^[11]

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982214010471 (Brusatte et al 2014)
Oviraptors within Euparaves. (Also see Figure S2 for more details.)
Notice that Pedopenna is included with Epidexipteryx within Euparaves.

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCAQFjAAahUKEwi1-N7DrJzHAhUJkh4KHRtPAWA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ivpp.cas.cn%2Fcbw%2Fgjzdwxb%2Fxbwzxz%2F201401%2FP020140121386966325113.pdf&ei=A3bHVfXqAYmkepuehYAG&usg=AFQjCNH1PpVWciHk2GxOR_QxipkA_gqu5Q&sig2=MEwOmtQjh_PUu6OAxg9RCg&bvm=bv.99804247,d.dmo (O'Connor and Sullivan 2014)
Zhongornis and Oviraptors within Euparaves.