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



Yes, the "-cun" is omitted when listing placenames in the manuscript. (The full provenance is provided after "äåäåä" [locality and horizon] at the bottom right of p. 328.) I didn't know if the village had a "standardized" English name, so I simply copied a transliteration from a Google search.

On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 3:41 PM David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at> wrote:
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":
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"in western LiÃonÃng, BÄipiÃo, XiÇobÄi-", and then Google Translate says æ is gÅu 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 cÅn æ; 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.
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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.