Re: ...bats by day, and bats, birds, by night.

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

At last I've found it...

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 11:12 AM

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Bois" <jbois@umd5.umd.edu>
> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 4:00 AM
>
> [...]
> > > I can cite literature (later if needed) about Eocene rheas of
apparently
> > > modern size, whatever else "modern aspect" means.
> >
> > I would like that ref.  And thank you.
>
> Sorry, can't find it right now. It's about an Eocene site in Antarctica;
> preserves the last known gondwanathere, several SA marsupials and SA
> ungulates except Notoungulata, a rhea and a phorusracoid. I'll look for
it.

And here it is:

Marcelo A. Reguero, Sergio A. Marenssi & Sergio N. Santillana: Antarctic
Peninsula and South America (Patagonia) Paleogene terrestrial faunas and
environments: biogeographic relationships, Palaeogeography,
Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 179 (3 -- 4), 189 -- 210 (20 May 2002)

Available (for free for me, not sure why) at www.sciencedirect.com. It's
very interesting. The oldest known sloth comes from there, and apparently
not one but two gondwanatheres. (It still mentions *Peligrotherium* from
Argentina as an enigmatic ungulate... instead it's the last dryolestoid in
the world.)

It only mentions a ratite, not specifically a rhea, but of course a rhea is
the most logical possibility. Unlike for the phorusracoid no citation is
given.

In any case there is *Diogenornis* from the Paleocene of Argentina, which is
also considered a possible rhea.