Re: [dinosaur] On several Russian papers

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

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Ben Creisler

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Do you necessarily want the first description of a taxon, which sometimes was a very short notice? In some cases, the same authors later published more detailed descriptions, some of which are online from different sources. However, I would need some time to track these down, which involves having the exact Russian spelling and often the Russian form of the scientific name.Â

Here's snippet views of the original description of Therizinosaurus (but it doesn't show the original goofy giant turtle "life" reconstruction that was in the Priroda article). Obviously, this was scanned by somebody...

https://books.google.com/books?id=H_Y9ehL_aKYC&q=%D0%A2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80&dq=%D0%A2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjZ0qWevoPlAhVEsp4KHUsvDqkQ6AEwBXoECAcQAg

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On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 9:51 AM David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at> wrote:

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Gesendet:ÂDonnerstag, 03. Oktober 2019 um 16:36 Uhr
Von:Â"Leonardo GÃmez" <primeval102@gmail.com>

Did anyone see this?

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I did. I neither have the pdfs, nor was I optimistic about any existing, so I didn't react.

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But searching Google Scholar for "pliosaurus rossicus" (with quotation marks) finds the openly accessible pdf on the first page of results.

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That's all, though.

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Dsungaripterus parvusÂis not found.

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Searching forÂEstemmenosuchus andÂÐÑÐÐÐÐÐ together does not find the description, only a paper celebrating his 90th birthday. The same holds forÂEotitanosuchus and ÐÑÐÐÐÐÐ (a paper in English, Chudinov 1965, is found, but that's not it, he named Eotitanosuchus in 1960).

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Searching forÂNyctiphruretus and ÐÑÑÐÐÐÐ brings up two results in total, neither of which is the description. Likewise forÂTitanophoneus and ÐÑÑÐÐÐÐ.

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Searching forÂTherizinosaurus and ÐÐÐÐÐÐ brings up interesting things, but nothing by ÐÐÐÐÐÐ.

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So, as expected, most of these works have either never been digitized, or they've only been scanned as pictures without OCR.