Today's nitpicking was Re: Nemegtian tyrannosaurs

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

> [...] Khermeyin Tsav, 
 
Haven't seen this name in the original. What I can say is that 
· the tsav part begins with a lower-case letter. 
· Traditionally, English speakers use kh. Apparently, The Age of Dinosaurs 
in Russia and Mongolia has proposed to use h instead. IMHO not a bad idea, 
because a real h does not exist in Mongolian, and Serbocroatian and 
Slovenian (as well as Macedonian when transcribed) use h for that sound, 
too. ("That sound" is the ch of Loch Ness. Ch has occasionally also been 
used to transcribe Mongolian, as in *Chulsanbaatar* which is from the same 
place, spelled Khulson by the AMNH team, as *Hulsanpes*.) While we are at 
it, we could use c for ts, which likewise is represented by one letter in 
Cyrillic, but I digress. :-) 
· -eyi- somehow doesn't look Mongolian to me. But I don't know Mongolian. 
So... :-} 
 
> Nemegt (Nemegetu) 
 
The latter must have gone through Chinese or Japanese. The Mongolian map 
in that wise French book of mine says Nemegt. 
 
> Bugin Tsav 
 
Bügiyn tsav. 
 
>   As for age, the Nemegt remains undefined as to wether it is wholy 
> Campanian (as the Dinosaur Park), straddling the boundary, or lower 
> Maastrichtian or even mid-Maastrichtian. 
 
You mean to say that the Dinosaur Park Fm is wholly Campanian, right? 

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