Olorotitan paper published

[Markus Moser <m.moser@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>]

The earlier mentioned new genus Olorotitan
(http://www.cmnh.org/dinoarch/2003Jan/msg00087.html) is now published
officially; please note that the spelling of the new species epithet is
NOT Olorotitan archarensis, as previously purported:

Pascal Godefroit, Yuri Bolotsky & Vladimir Alifanov (2003): A remarkable
hollow-crested hadrosaur from Russia: an Asian origin for
lambeosaurines. - C. R. Palevol Vol 2, Issue 2: 143?151. (March 2003). 

Abstract
The nearly complete skeleton of a new lambeosaurine dinosaur, Olorotitan
arharensis, has been discovered in the Maastrichtian Tsagayan Formation
at Kundur, Far Eastern Russia. This is the most complete dinosaur
skeleton ever discovered in Russia and, with its finely preserved
supracranial crest, the most complete lambeosaurine outside North
America. This new taxon is remarkable by the unusual shape of its hollow
crest and by the important elongation of its neck and of its sacrum. An
additional articulation between adjacent neural spines made the proximal
third of the tail rigid, but it cannot be excluded that it is a
pathological feature. Phylogenetic analysis shows that Olorotitan is the
sister-taxon of the North American genera Corythosaurus and
Hypacrosaurus. Lambeosaurines originated from Asia and then migrated to
North America before or at the beginning of the Late Campanian.


Dr. Markus Moser
Bayerische Staatssammlung fuer Palaeontologie und Geologie
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Department fuer 
Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften, Sektion Palaeontologie
Richard-Wagner-Str. 10
D-80333 Muenchen
Germany