Re: Kerberosaurus manakini

[Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

From: Tim Donovan wrote:

> Where is Kerberosaurus from? Kundur?

_Kerberosaurus_ comes from the city of Blagoveschensk, in the Amur Region of 
far eastern Russia, very close to the border with China.  The Blagoveschensk 
locality is northwest of Kundur, which was deemed by Markevich (1994) to be 
of the same age as the Blagoveschensk locality, and of the Miho Group that 
yielded _Nipponosaurus_.

Interestingly, the genus _Kerberosaurus_ takes its name from Kerberos 
(Cerberus), the ferocious dog that guarded the Underworld in Greek 
mythology.  _Charonosaurus_, another Amur hadrosaur described by Godefroit 
et al. (2000), was also named after a denizen of the Underworld: the surly 
ferryman, Charon.


Tim

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