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It has everything to do with DNA. In just the same way that a tasmanian wolf is related to marsupials and not real wolves, two fossils could be vastly different in genotype and deceptively similar in phenotype. They can therefore be mistaken as transitional.
But the are not deceptively similar in phenotype. Sure, they have 4 legs so are the "deceptively similar" to an elephant? They have forward facing eyes but are the "deceptively similar" to an owl?
They are very, very dissimilar. From the bones out they are of different infraclasses.