Re: On Terror Birds & Teratorns

[Marilyn Wegweiser <wegweise@mail.gcsu.edu>]

Just a thought-
You might all consider emailing Bob Chandler at bchand@gcsu.edu when you 
wonder outloud about "Terror BIrds" since he IS "Dr. terror Bird"..... I'm 
sure he'd have some interesting input to you q uestions. He'd be delighted 
to know we do on occasion talk about more than neonatal birds.....

Carry On,
MDW

At 03:46 PM 4/26/2003 -0400, Patrick Norton wrote:
> >(Though I recall somewhere that a 15,000 year old Titanis bone was found)<
>
> You may be thinking of an article by Jon Baskin (JVP, 1995, 15(4): 
> 842-844) in which he reports on a right pedal phalanx of Titanis walleri 
> from sediment that >could< be anywhere from early Pliocene to late 
> Pleistocene.  Material from those two periods were mixed together at the 
> site, although he does report that the preservation of the Titanis 
> material is similar to the preservation of the Bison and other late 
> Pleistocene faunal material found at that site and unlike the more darkly 
> stained and permineralized Pliocene horse material mixed 
> in.  Inconclusive, at best, however.  The more firmly dated Titanis 
> material includes the material reported by Robert Chandler (Bulletin of 
> the Florida Museum of Natural History, v 36, no 6, 1994)---which was 
> dated, as I recall, at a couple million years.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> PTN



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