Feathered Dinosaurs, Flying Dinosaurs, Crown Dinosaurs and the Names "Aves"

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DEVELOPING A PROTOCOL FOR THE CONVERSION OF RANK-BASED TAXON NAMES TO PHYLOGENETICALLY DEFINED CLADE NAMES, AS EXEMPLIFIED BY TURTLES (2004, methodology): “Following the arguments presented in a series of articles (de Queiroz and Donoghue, 1988; de Queiroz and Gauthier, 1990, 1992, 1994; Rowe and Gauthier, 1992; Gauthier and de Queiroz, 2001), we assign all widely used names to crown clades.”
A beaked basal ornithurine bird (Aves, Ornithurae) from the Lower Cretaceous of China (2006, background): “…name (i.e. ornithurine birds possess a tail shorter than the femur, with a pygostyle of modern aspect), it should comprise not only the last common ancestor of Apsaravis ukhaana and extant birds, and all of its descendants (Gauthier & Queiroz 2001) but also some other basal ornithurines.”