Issi saaneq (meaning "cold" in Greenlandic) is an extinct genus of medium-sized Plateosaurid from Jameson Land in central East Greenland, also being the northernmost sauropodomorph discovered yet.
Discovery[]
The holotype specimen (NHMD 164741) was discovered by paleontologists from the Harvard University somewhere in the 1990s, in the Malmros Klint Formation of Greenland.[1] It was first described in 1994 by Jenkins et al., and was assigned to Plateosaurus trossigensis, however Victor Beccari and others reviewed the fossils and they showed significant differences.[2]It has only one species so far described, Issi saaneq, meaning cold bone in the local Inuit language.[3]
Description[]
The skull of the holotype of Issi has a preserved length of 243.7 millimeters.
Classification[]
The holotype and paratype, NHMD 164741 and NHMD 164758, were initially considered to represent some species of Plateosaurus, likely P. engelhardti or P. trossingensis.