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Re: [dinosaur] Liaoningotitan, new titanosauriform sauropod from Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of Liaoning, China (free pdf)



Liaoningotitan is from the Jianshangou Bed of the Yixian Formation, near Xiaobeigoucun, Beipiao City.
Gazing at the pdf for a minute until I recognized a character other than "bone", I found this in section 0, right under "2007":
 
在辽西北票小北沟
 
"in western Liáoníng, Běipiào, Xiǎoběi-", and then Google Translate says 沟 is gōu and forms parts of words with ditch-related meanings, so it's probably the "valley" term that is so common in placenames. Google Translate further confirms that "village" is cūn ; it's not surprising that the "village" part of "Little North Valley Village" is left off in the usual general-to-specific succession of placenames. In short, I think Liaoningotitan is indeed from the same area as Yutyrannus.
 
Also, the species name is spelled sinensis in the main text, the Chinese abstract and all figure & table legends, so the "sinesis" in the English abstract can be safely ignored as a typo.