Boreopelta

Extinct genus of amphibians

Boreopelta
Temporal range: Early Triassic, Olenekian
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Restoration of Boreopelta vavilovi
Scientific classification Edit this 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

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

  1. ^ 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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Temnospondyli
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Lapillopsidae
Rhinesuchidae
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Metoposaurus diagnosticus

Gerrothorax pulcherrimus
Taxon identifiers
Boreopelta


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