Heteropelta

Heteropelta
Temporal range: Middle Triassic, Anisian
Holotype
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Eucrocopoda
Genus: †Heteropelta
Dalla Vecchia, 2021
Type species
†Heteropelta boboi
Dalla Vecchia, 2021

Heteropelta is an extinct genus of archosauriform, possibly a basal archosauriform, basal phytosaur or a suchian archosaur. It is known from a single species, Heteropelta boboi, which was found in the Middle Triassic Torbiditi d'Aupa Formation in Italy. The holotype is listed as specimen MFSN 46485 and was collected after 2006.

References

  1. ↑ Vecchia, Fabio Marco Dalla (2021-11-15). "Heteropelta boboi n. gen., n. sp. an armored archosauriform (Reptilia: Archosauromorpha) from the Middle Triassic of Italy". PeerJ. 9 e12468. doi:10.7717/peerj.12468. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 8601055. PMID 34820195.
  2. ↑ Dalla Vecchia, F. M. (2006). Resti di Tanystropheus, saurotterigi e rauisuchi (Reptilia) nel Triassico medio della Val Aupa (Moggio Udinese, Udine) Gortania-Atti del Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale 27(2005):25-48