(fwd) Domain about phorusrhacoid birds

[John Bois <jbois@umd5.umd.edu>]

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From: Christoph Kulmann <kulmann@alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de>
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Subject: Domain about phorusrhacoid birds
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 15:21:46 +0200
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Hello readers,

My long-standing interest in South American phorusrhacoid birds has just
culminated in an own domain for them - you can find it at

http://www.terrorvogel.de

I try to include as much information as possible, so it will grow into the
best online reference for these birds.

There is also a page about the systematic classification of the known
phorusrhacoid species (http://www.terrorvogel.de/arten.html). I have
chosen a rather conservative classification, combining a book about
paleornitology published in 1933 and Marshall's 1994 article in Scientific
American.=20
As you probably guess, these two sources don't cover all of them, and so
there are still a few uncertain candidates. These are Hermosiornis,
Tolmodus, Onactornis, and Procariama. Does anyone have an idea about
their systematic position? As for Onactornis, its size suggests it to be
a brontornitid, but I'm not sure. And if you think that some of these
rather "old" species has a new name today,.....

Any comments to this domain are highly wellcome - and if you think there
is something that should be added, please let me know.

Best regards
Christoph Kulmann
University of Bremen/Germany
Department of Biology
chris@terrorvogel.de

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