Boreostemma
Sign in to savealt=Reconstruction of the glyptodont Boreostemma venezolensis. Artwork created with rapidograph and colored markers. Author: Edwin Chávez. |thumb|Paleoart of Boreostemma venezolensis. Created by Edwin Chávez "Disfrasaurio". Boreostemma is an extinct genus of glyptodonts from northern South America. Fossils assigned to the genus were first described as belonging to Asterostemma from southern South America, but have been placed in the new genus Boreostemma by Carlini et al. in 2008. The type species is B. pliocena. Fossils of Boreostemma have been found in the Honda Group of Colombia, in Peru an
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The entry is geolocated on the map, across 7 mapped points.
Vinony files it under Fossils of Colombia, Fossils of Peru and Fossils of Venezuela.
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- Parent taxon
- glyptodonts
- Image
- Boreostemma-bpk.jpg
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- taxon name
- Boreostemma
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- genus
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- Boreostemma
- start time
- 13000000-0
- end time
- 5000000-00
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alt=Reconstruction of the glyptodont Boreostemma venezolensis. Artwork created with rapidograph and colored markers. Author: Edwin Chávez. |thumb|Paleoart of Boreostemma venezolensis. Created by Edwin Chávez "Disfrasaurio". Boreostemma is an extinct genus of glyptodonts from northern South America. Fossils assigned to the genus were first described as belonging to Asterostemma from southern South America, but have been placed in the new genus Boreostemma by Carlini et al. in 2008. The type species is B. pliocena. Fossils of Boreostemma have been found in the Honda Group of Colombia, in Peru and Venezuela.
== Etymology == The genus name Boreostemma is a combination of stemma, taken from Asterostemma, and boreo is derived from borealis, meaning "northern", to distinguish the northern South American genus from the southern Asterostemma.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Boreostemma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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7 mapped locations