Diatryma question

["Michael Purvis" <vraptor@gte.net>]

> 
> >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.
> 

 Don't have the ref at hand, but I recall reading somewhere that it's now
suggested that Diatryma might actually have been a leaf eater, based on its
beak structure. Comments, anyone?