[Rockhounds] Hummingbird-size dinosaur may actually be a lizard - paper retracted

[Paul]

Hummingbird-size dinosaur may actually be a lizard
By Laura Geggel, Live Science, July 2020
https://www.livescience.com/retraction-smallest-dinosaur.html

The publications, with URLs, involved in this disussions are:

Li, Z., Wang, W., Hu, H., Wang, M., Yi, H. and Lu, J.,
2020. Is Oculudentavis a bird or even archosaur? bioRxiv.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.16.993949v4.abstract
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.16.993949v4.full.pdf

O???Connor, J., Xing, L., Chiappe, L., Schmitz, L., Li, G.,
and Yi, Q., 2020, Reply to Li et al. Is Oculudentavis a
bird or even archosaur? biorxiv.org ,
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.12.147041v1
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.12.147041v1.full.pdf+html

Xing, L., O???Connor, J.K., Schmitz, L., Chiappe, L.M., McKellar, R.C.,
 ??Yi, Q. and Li, G., 2020. Hummingbird-sized dinosaur from the
Cretaceous period of Myanmar. Nature, 579(7798), pp.245-249.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2068-4

Xing, L., O???Connor, J.K., Schmitz, L. et al. Retraction Note:
Hummingbird-sized dinosaur from the Cretaceous period
of Myanmar. Nature (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2553-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2553-9

Related articles,

SVP Executive Committee, 2020, On Burmese Amber and
fossil repositories: SVP member's cooperation requested!
The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, McLean, Virginia.
http://vertpaleo.org/Society-News/SVP-Paleo-News/Society-News,-Press-Releases/On-Burmese-Amber-and-Fossil-Repositories-SVP-Memb.aspx

Sokol, J., 2019, Troubled treasure.
Science Vol. 364, Issue 6442, pp. 722-729
DOI: 10.1126/science.364.6442.722
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6442/722

Yours,

Paul H.