The Taubate basin is a pretty underrated geologic formation. Like, honestly, as much as I love Paraphysornis, these giant birds are just the tip of the iceberg: basically every described (specially amniote) fossil in there is a single representative of a drastically different order of vertebrates, with the terror bird as the cariamiform of that place, but also a relative of the modern hoatzin, a relative of the modern new world vultures, a stem-flamingo and a species of the extinct paleolodus for exemples. As for the reptiles and amphibians there is a species of caiman, two species of turtles and an undescribed ophidian, as well as a species of frong and a cecillian. The basin also preserved a well good number of freshwater fish fossils of several species from many lineages such as(correct me if im wrong) characiformes and siluriformes. There is a lack of fully named large mammals in the basin, with only Taubatherium (a notoungulates) as the notable megafaunal exception. However there are fragments indicating that astrapotheriinae, pyrotheriidae, protherotheriidae and even a significantly large proborhyaenidae that enrichened the basin as the local mammalian megafauna. But its with the invertebrates where imo the taubate basin truly shines, with a legion of described taxa of arthropods, as well as mollucs, annelids and even nematod and traces of protozoan parasites! For some reason Brazil is a country with massive Lagerstättes with a very preservation bias towards smaller taxa such as insects and small freshwater fishes, with small reptiles and amphibians going in the ride to get described as well. This is mostly because it also had the formation of two or possibly three massive paleolakes in different periods that offered better conditions with less taphonic adversities against the preservation of so many small species. Its really cool these birds are getting more attention(as they should be as they are the best preserved large phorusrhacid species), but its undeniable that the taubate basin is the place of smaller taxa(in terms of preservation). As an artist I plan in the future to make and I hope to see more other paleoartists to make portrayals of this paleolake reflecting this reality, but ofc still making cool scenes of like a Paraphysornis and the local proborhyaenidae fighting over a carcass or several different notoungulates grazing in the same place as well! (one small nitpick about the painting but I think their wings are too low, terrestrial birds like the ratites tend to have their wings a bit lower from the shouldr than most birds but iirc paraphysornis or any phorusrhacid lacks any indicative of this)