Deltavjatia is an extinct genus of pareiasaurid parareptile from the Capitanian stage of the late Permian in Russia.
Discovery and Naming[]
It was named Deltavjatia vjatkensis by Hartmann & Weinberg in 1987. Deltavjatia was named a subtaxon of Pareiasauridae by M.S.Y. Lee in 1997. The first specimen of Deltavjatia was a specimen of a skull and lower mandibile, found in the Urpalov Formation in Kotelnich, Vyatka River.