|
Chris Brochu said: about 15th March 98: < What's neat (to me, a croc specialist) is that big terrestrial killer birds almost always appear coevally with putatively terrestrial crocodyliforms. Phorusrhachids are found in association with "sebecosuchians" (the North American Pleistocene occurrences are an exception), and diatrymids appear in association with pristichampsine crocodylians. > Someone said a ph. was found in Florida, which I suppose then as now had a varied terrain . . .but . . . I also read somewhere recently that large parts of the midwest USA used to be swamp and marsh before it was drained . . .so how about the idea of these birds being swamp dwellers? Seems odd for a running bird, but then storks (said to be related to Diatrymids) are not out of place in swamps. JJ
|