Re: Re-emergence of lost features.

["Matthew Troutman" <m_troutman@hotmail.com>]

>Sounds like you saw a picture of a diatrymid  - a different lineage 
that
>filled the same gestalt as Phorusrhachidae independently.  They're 
known
>from the Eocene of North America and Europe in the Eocene, and are 
(last I
>heard) related to cranes.


     Diatrymids ( Gastrornithiformes ) have been bumped around 
systematically for the last century. Many people allied them with the 
Gruiformes ( cranes ) and even seriemas. These views are falling out of 
favor and an Anseriformes ( ducks ) connection is seeming more an more 
likely.


MattTroutman

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