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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