Re: Arambourgiania citation

[Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Allan Edels wrote:

> Actually, it looks like standard Gallifreyan to me - note the repetition of 
> "Ð".

Maybe a Tersuran or Shadanese dialect?  ;-)

Onto _Titanopteryx_...

Jerry Harris wrote:

> Nessov, L.A., Kanznyshkina, L.F., and Cherepanov, G.O. 1987. Dinosaurs, 
> crocodiles and other archosaurs from the Late mesozoic of central Asia and 
> their place in ecosystems.  Abstracts of the 33rd session of the All-Union 
> Palaeontological Society, Leningrad, pp. 46-47. [In Russian].

Of course, as an Abstract, this would not qualify as a valid mode of 
publishing a new name, under ICZN rules.  (I don't mean to imply that HP 
Harris was suggesting this.)

"Nessov & Borkin (1989)" is the ref usually cited as the publication that 
officially named _Arambourgiania_ as the replacement name for _Titanopteryx_ 
Arambourg.  I think this was the same publication in which another new 
pterosaur genus name, _Bogolubovia_, was proposed (for _Ornithostoma 
orientale_).

Curiously, the "Nomenclator Zoologicus" database includes neither 
_Arambourgiania_ or _Bogolubovia_.  Here, as elsewhere, locating the late 
Lev Nessov's publications is complicated by the fact that his name is 
translated into English as either 'Nesov' or 'Nessov'.

For those interested, the original _Titanopteryx_ (Enderlein, 1935) is a 
blackfly (=_Simulium).  Not really so "titanic".

I don't know if this helped at all.

Cheers

Tim

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