Heteropelta

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Heteropelta
Temporal range: Middle Triassic, Anisian
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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 in Italy.[1]

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.


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