Aupa Valley near Saps village: Anisian, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Heteropelta boboi n. gen., n. sp.
Dalla Vecchia 2021
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Dalla Vecchia 2021 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| Holotype. MFSN 46485, partial armor made of eight columns of osteoderms andfiveneural arches of dorsal vertebrae | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Italy | State/province: | Udine |
| Coordinates: | 46.5° North, 13.2° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 5.6° North, 24.4° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Middle Triassic |
| Stage: | Anisian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Anisian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 247.20000 - 242.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Torbiditi d’Aupa | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "The fossils from this locality occur in the ‘torbiditi d’Aupa’ Formation and have a late Anisian (Illyrian) age (Dalla Vecchia 2006c). They were found in different outcrops of the ‘torbiditi d’Aupa’ located along the Aupa Torrent near the village of Saps and the confluence of the Dell’Andri Brook (sites 1-6 of Dalla Vecchia 2006c, plus sites 7-8 of Dalla Vecchia 2010). Other two sites (9-10) were found after 2010" |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Lithology description: "The main outcrop is site 6, made of large boulders cropping out from the bed and bank of the water streams just downstream respect to the aqueduct building placed at the confluence of the Dell’Andri Brook and the Torrent Aupa." | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Locality 9 | ||
| Database number: | 223708 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Dunne | Enterer: | E. Dunne |
| Modifier: | E. Dunne | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2021-11-22 16:12:56 | Last modified: | 2021-11-22 16:14:26 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2021-11-22 16:12:56 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 78700. | F. M. Dalla Vecchia and L. Simonetto. 2018. Osteological remains of reptiles from Friuli region (NE Italy) in the palaeontological collections of the Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale. Gortania-Geologia, Paleontologia, Paletnologia 39:27-70 [E. Dunne/E. Dunne] |
Secondary references:
| 78699 | F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2021. Heteropelta boboin. gen., n. sp. an armored archosauriform (Reptilia: Archosauromorpha) from the Middle Triassic of Italy. PeerJ [E. Dunne/E. Dunne/E. Dunne] |