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>>107491 Troodontids are deinonychosaurs, they're a sister group to the "sinornithosaur"-dromaeosaurid clade, offhand. I haven't paid much attention to papers on theropods lately, so I'll haphazardly point to: Hwang et al. (2002): http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/2870 Norell et al. (2006): http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/5823 Turner et al. (2007): http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/5845
Or any of their other numerous publications in the past seven years. TWG's matrices may not be the absolute best in the field, but they are among the best that have been published so far.
Phil Senter's work is comparable, and I know at least in his latest publication, he also recovered troodontids within the Deinonychosauria.
Even still Deinonychosauria != Dromaeosauridae. Effectively, troodontids are the sistergroup to almost all other deinonychosaurs, and dromaeosaurids are nested inside somewhere in the rest of that mess.
By the way, if you didn't know, this: http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/
is a great resource in general, the AMNH's workers did a fantastic job in scanning and preparing hundreds, no no no, thousands of old publications, and then providing them all for free? I'm touched.
Also regarding the "monstrous wattles", sure, Rey's work highly exaggerates, but it's not totally inconceivable. I guess it chalks up to how conservative one wants to be or not.
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