Boreopelta Shishkin 1985 (tetrapod)

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Rhytidosteidae

Parent taxon: Peltosteginae according to R. Schoch and A. R. Milner 2000

See also Carroll 1988 and Marsicano and Warren 1998

Sister taxa: Deltasaurus, Mahavisaurus, Trucheosaurus

Subtaxa: Boreopelta vavilovi

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Type: Boreopelta vavilovi

Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution: found only at Karya-khos-Teryutekh river (Triassic of Russian Federation)

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