Editing Archaeoraptor (section)

===Taxonomic history===
In April 2000 Olson published an article in ''Backbone'', the newsletter of the National Museum of Natural History. In this article, he justified his views on the evolution of birds, but also revised and redescribed the species "Archaeoraptor liaoningensis" by designating just the tail of the original fraudulent specimen as the [[type specimen]].<ref>Storrs L. Olson, 2000. Countdown to Piltdown at ''National Geographic'': the rise and fall of Archaeoraptor. ''Backbone'', newsletter of the Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, 13(2) (April): 1–3.</ref> To prevent the tainted name "Archaeoraptor" from entering [[paleornithology|paleornithological]] literature, this redescription assigned the name to that part of the chimeric specimen least likely to be classified under [[Aves]], rather than to the portion which was later shown to represent a true bird species. Olson presumed that the ''National Geographic'' article had already validly named the fossil, and he, therefore, failed to explicitly indicate the name was new, as demanded by article 16 of the [[International Code of Zoological Nomenclature|ICZN]] as a condition for a name to be valid. Several months afterward Xu, Zhou, and Wang published their description of ''Microraptor zhaoianus'' in ''Nature''.<ref name="Xuetal2000"/>