Re: Tsagayan/Udurchukan age-Campanian? (short!)

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

Sorry I can't contribute anything more constructive...

> Hermiintsab

We can quibble about the spelling of about half of that word, but this 
doesn't include the last letter. That's v, not b. (OK, it's w if you happen 
to prefer a _Polish_ spelling.)

> Nemegetu

This spelling must have gone through Japanese. It's really Nemegt. I have 
the catalogue of an exhibition on the "dinosaurs and mammals of the Gobi" 
which was in Paris in 1992/3, and it includes a map of Mongolian fossil 
localities (Cambrian to Pleistocene) in Mongolian.

Oh, wait, I've come up with something constructive: the primitive nature of 
*Clethrionomys glareolus* (it doesn't have rootless teeth, while all its 
relatives do) is inconsistent with a Holocene age. Too bad this European 
forest mouse is extant, and it doesn't exactly have a relictual 
distribution.