the same is true if it were placed in the pelecaniformes. for as it seems, "goliathia andrewsi", an ancestral shoebill that was slightly larger and presumably far less apomorphic than the living species, lived at about the same time and in the same region as "e. eocaenus". it is only known from a single ulna, which proves however that it was far less in bulk than "eremopezus" and certainly able to fly well.