In Depth
Fossils of the dinosaur Issi were originally referred to the genus Plateosaurus. However, greater understanding of Plateosaurus, sauropodomorphs dinosaurs as well as new studies of the fossils from Greenland led to the conclusion that the Greenland fossils were of a distinct genus. Issi was established as the new published name of the genus in 2021, and this made Issi the first non-avian dinosaur genus to be formerly described in Greenland.
Although separate from Plateosaurus, Issi would have still been quite similar in appearance. Sauropodomorph dinosaurs like Issi were precursors to the later and significantly larger sauropod dinosaurs that became prominent during the Jurassic and into the Cretaceous. Further reading
- Issi saaneq gen. et sp. nov.—A New Sauropodomorph Dinosaur from the Late Triassic (Norian) of Jameson Land, Central East Greenland. - Diversity. 13 (11): 561. - Victor Beccari, Oct�vio Mateus, Oliver Wings, Jesper Mil�n & Lars B. Clemmensen - 2021.
