Arambougiania Citation Redux

["Jerry D. Harris" <jharris@dixie.edu>]

Hi All -

   Last December, there was some discussion on-list as to what the 
appropriate citation was for _Arambourgiania_, and I posited 
(http://dml.cmnh.org/2006Dec/msg00027.html) that it might be a paper in the 
journal _Uzbekskii Geologicheskii Zhurnal_, and that I could track that 
paper down.  Well, it took me a while to get to the library that had it, but 
now I do.  This does NOT appear to the appropriate citation for 
_Arambourgiania_ -- that name does not appear (at least in non-Cyrillic 
characters) anywhere that I can find in the short paper, which otherwise 
appears to be about chondrichthyan teeth, possibly from the Cretaceous of (I 
assume) Uzbekistan.  Thus, I would have to guess that, as Martill et al. 
(1998) cited, the correct citation for the erection of this nomen is indeed 
the abstract:

Nessov, L.A., Kanznyshkina, L.F., and Cherepanov, G.O. 1987. Dinosaurs, 
crocodiles and other archosaurs from the Late mesozoic of central Asia and 
their place in ecosystems. Abstracts of the 33rd session of the All-Union 
Palaeontological Society, Leningrad, pp. 46-47. [In Russian].

...which I am in the process of trying to track down.  More bulletins as 
events warrant...

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