Boreopelta Temporal range: Early Triassic, Olenekian |
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Restoration of Boreopelta vavilovi | |
Scientific classification | |
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.