Issi
Name: Issi
(Cold).
Phonetic: Iss-se.
Named By: Victor Beccari, Oct�vio Mateus, Oliver
Wings, Jesper Mil�n & Lars B. Clemmensen - 2021.
Classification: Chordata, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Plateosauridae.
Species: I. saaneq (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Skull 24.37 centimetres long.
Known locations: Greenland - Fleming Fjord
Formation.
Time period: Norian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Skulls and partial post
cranial skeletons of several individuals.
Fossils
of the dinosaur Issi were originally referred to
the genus
Plateosaurus.
However, greater understanding of Plateosaurus,
sauropodomorphs
dinosaurs as well as new studies of the fossils from
Greenland led to the conclusion that the Greenland fossils were of a
distinct genus. Issi was established as the new
published name of the
genus in 2021, and this made Issi the first non-avian dinosaur
genus to be formerly described in Greenland.
Although
separate from Plateosaurus, Issi
would have still been quite
similar in appearance. Sauropodomorph dinosaurs like Issi
were
precursors to the later and significantly larger sauropod dinosaurs
that became prominent during the Jurassic and into the Cretaceous.
Further reading
- Issi saaneq gen. et sp. nov.—A New Sauropodomorph Dinosaur
from the Late Triassic (Norian) of Jameson Land, Central East
Greenland. - Diversity. 13 (11): 561. - Victor
Beccari, Oct�vio Mateus, Oliver Wings, Jesper Mil�n &
Lars B. Clemmensen - 2021.
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