Genus
Valid Extinct

Issi

Beccari et al. 2021

Issi is a plateosaurid dinosaur from the Late Triassic Fleming Fjord Formation of Greenland. It contains one species, Issi saaneq; the full binomial name means "cold bone". Fossils of Issi were previously assigned to the species Plateosaurus trossingensis, but new finds allowed for a reassessment of that material that showed that it possessed features thought to be exclusive to Brazilian sauropodomorphs such as Unaysaurus and Macrocollum. This ultimately led to the designation of Issi as a distinct genus in 2021. This taxon is the first non-avian dinosaur described from Greenland.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Terrestrial
Issi
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Photograph of the skulls NHMD 164741 and NHMD 164758. (A) NHMD 164741 in left lateral view. (B) NHMD 164758 in left lateral view. © by Victor Beccari, Octávio Mateus, Oliver Wings, Jesper Milàn, and Lars B. Clemmensen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
PBDB Wikipedia
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Saurischia Unranked clade
Sauropodomorpha Unranked clade
Plateosauridae Family
Issi Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇱 Greenland
1
Geological formations
Malmros Klint
1
Temporal distribution
Norian (227.3–205.7 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Issi saaneq 227 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
V. Beccari, O. Mateus, and O. Wings, J. Milàn, L. B. Clemmensen. 2021. Issi saaneq gen. et sp. nov.—A New Sauropodomorph Dinosaur from the Late Triassic (Norian) of Jameson Land, Central East Greenland. Diversity 13:561:1-59 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
V. Beccari, O. Mateus, and O. Wings, J. Milàn, L. B. Clemmensen. 2021. Issi saaneq gen. et sp. nov.—A New Sauropodomorph Dinosaur from the Late Triassic (Norian) of Jameson Land, Central East Greenland. Diversity 13:561:1-59 DOI ↗