RHEGMINORNIS RESTUDIED: A TINY MIOCENE TURKEY

The only fossil form referred to the Jacanidae is the Miocene Rhegminornis calobates Wetmore (1943), described from a distal end of a right tarsometatarsus. An interest in that family induced us to restudy this specimen, with the re,ult that it proved to be neither a jacana nor a Charadriiform, but a galliform in the family Meleagrididae. This prompted us to examine other galliform material from the same locality the Lower Miocene deposits at Thomas Farm, 8 miles north of Bell, Gilchrist County, Florida.