Re: Dinosaur Genera List update #180

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

> millenniumi

Oh, no...
OK, let's see it positively, they got the nn right. |-(

> Heilongjiangosaurus jiayinensis Li & Jin, 2001 [nomen nudum]
>
> This is evidently a new name for what has been called Mandschurosaurus
> jiainensis since 1983, but it may also be some kind of previously unpublished
> manuscript name for Charonosaurus jiayinensis.

I think it's a safe bet that this is *Charonosaurus*. Not only is the specific 
epithet identical,
the name is little more than a translation -- as I pointed out when 
*Charonosaurus* was mentioned
onlist for the first time, Heilongjiang ( = Chinese side of the Amur, just 
where *Charonosaurus* was
found) means Black Dragon River; Charon is the one who brings the shadows of 
the dead across another
dark river, Acheron or Styx (I forgot). IMHO it's the same joke as 
*Stygivenator* and *Stygimoloch*
from Hell Creek.

> Li Weirong & Jin Jidong [...]
> Wei Mingrui, Hu Shusheng & Zhang Yan [...]
> Zhang Yugung & Li Jianjun [...]
> Pang Qiqing

Won't take long and all Chinese syllables are somehow connected to a dinosaur 
name :-)

> Qiu Licheng & Huang Dong, 2001. "Dinosaur fossils from the Heyuan Basin in
> Guangdong Province, China," in Deng & Wang, eds., 2001: 59-63 [in Chinese
> with English abstract].
>
> The above describes various dinosaur eggs and nests along with skeletal
> material referred to the oviraptorosaur genus Ingenia. Long eggs are
> referable to Ingenia by association.

*Ingenia* 2100 -- 2500 km away from home? Quite a range extension.

> This article introduces the family name Huabeisauridae for the sauropod genus
> Huabeisaurus

What can it be related to?

> Finally, I just received the second supplement to Don Glut's Dinosaurs: The
> Encyclopedia.

So there's hope mine (ordered in July when the book didn't exist) is right now 
crossing the
Atlantic... :-)