The newly discovered Russian dinosaur named after Mongolian spirit
Nikolay Zverkov, a student from the Department of Paleontology at the Faculty of Geology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University and one of the article authors says: “The new pliosaur – Luskhan itilensis – has got its name from the Mongolian mythology, where Luus-khan stands for a spirit and master of water, and Itil is the ancient Turkic and Mongolian name for the Volga. A pliosaur skeleton was found in 2002 in the Cretaceous deposits (the Hauterivian age of the early Cretaceous Period, about 130 million years ago) on the bank of the Volga River, within 20 kilometers to the north of Ulyanovsk.”
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2017/06/newly-discovered-russian-dinosaur-named-mongolian-spirit/115547
