Erlikosaurus

[endocrin@desktop.com.au (Graeme Worth)]

Recent discussion as to whether it is ErliK- or ErliC-osaurus seem not
to have considered the derivation of the name. According to my refs it
derives from Erlik, the king of the dead in one of the mythologies
(can't remember which, off hand). Maybe we should be checking the
spelling of this - if it is always or even usually spelled with a K
then the original author presumably knew exactly what he wanted and we
should stop messing about with it!  There has to be a classical
(?semi-classical?) scholar out there somewhere who can answer this for
us once and for all.

Graeme Worth