Re: new sauropods: Amargatitanis and Nopcsaspondylus

[Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>]

Quoting jigruiz@unizar.es:

> AMARGATITANIS gen. nov.

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> Etymology: Amarga, referring the fossil locality; titanis (Greek),  
> titan, giant, because of the affinities of the specimen with the  
> titanosaurs.

Actually, *titanis* is specifically a female titan.

Also, in case anyone ever takes it into his/her head to make this genus 
the basis of some higher-level taxon, the stem is *titanid-*:  
Amargatitanididae, Amargatitanidoidea, Amargatitanidini, etc.

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Nick Pharris
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University of Michigan

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