Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 80 (2): 261-264, 2007
FORUM
Comments about “Observations about the record of Paraptenodytes and
Palaeospheniscus (Aves: Sphenisciformes) on the Bahia Inglesa Formation, Chile”
We reply to the commentaries made by Chávez (2007) on this volume and regarding our
recently published paper (Acosta Hospitaleche & Canto 2005). Despite a thorough discussion of our assignment of several
Chilean remains, Chávez (2007) based his commentaries on the examination of a single photograph instead a revision of the materials
directly. Apart from this issue, the data cited during his observations were not completely accurate as they were not updated, an
aspects that lead his to wrong conclusions.
Key words:
fossil penguins, Bahía
Inglesa Formation, Neogene
