Boreopelta
Boreopelta Temporal range: Early Triassic,
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Restoration of Boreopelta vavilovi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Temnospondyli |
Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
Family: | †Rhytidosteidae |
Genus: | †Boreopelta Shishkin & Vavilov, 1985 |
Type species | |
†Boreopelta vavilovi Shishkin & Vavilov, 1985
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Boreopelta is an extinct genus of rhytidosteid temnospondyl from the early Triassic period (Olenekian stage) of Yakutsk Region, central Siberia, Russia. It is known from the holotype PIN 4115/1, a skull fragment and from the referred specimen PIN 4113/5, a partial lower jaw, recovered from the Teryutekhskaya Formation near the Karya-khos-Teryutekh River. This genus was named by M. A. Shishkin and M. N. Vavilov in 1985, and the type species is Boreopelta vavilovi.[1]
References
- ^ Shishkin, M. A.; Vavilov, M. N. (1985). "A rhytidosteid (Amphibia, Labyrinthodontia) find from the Triassic in the USSR". Transactions (Doklady) of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Earth Science Sections. 282: 233–236.
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