ISSI
a plateosaurid sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Late Triassic of Greenland.
Pronunciation: IS-ee
Meaning: Cold
Author/s: Beccari
et al. (
2021)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Jameson Land, Greenland
Acta Ordinal: #1065
Issi saaneq
(Cold Bone)Etymology
In Kalaallisut—the Inuit language of Greenland—
Issi (IS-ee) means "cold".
The
species epithet,
saaneq (sa-ah-neq), means "bone".
ZooBank registry:
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:8DF8A871-C8D7-4944-A8A9-338BF82AB5CA.
Discovery
The remains of
Issi were discovered in the Malmros Klint Formation (Fleming Fjord Group) at the Macknight Bjerg site, Jameson Land, central East Greenland, by William W. Amaral, William R. Downs, Stephen M. Gatesy, Neil H. Shubin, Niels Bonde and Farish Jenkins on 27 July, 1991. The
holotype (NHMD 164741) is a nearly complete sub-adult skull. A paratype skull (NHMD 164758) was found in the same area in 1995.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Triassic
Stage: Norian
Age range: 225 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: ?
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: Herbivore
References
• Novas FE, Ezcurra MD, Chatterjee S and Kutty TS (1994) "Late Triassic Continental Vertebrates and Depositional Environments of the Fleming Fjord Formation, Jameson Land, East Greenland".
In Jenkins, Shubin, Amaral, Gatesy, Schaff, Clemmensen, Downs, Davidson, Bonde, and Osbaeck (eds) "Meddelelser om Grønland Geoscience Brenderup, Denmark, 1994".
• Beccari V, Mateus O, Wings O, Milàn J and Clemmensen LB (2021) "
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. DOI: 10.3390/d13110561.
• Marzola M, Mateus O, Milàn J and Clemmensen LB (2018) "A review of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Tetrapods from Greenland".
Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, 66: 21–46.
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