Heteropelta

{{Short description|Extinct genus of reptiles}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Middle Triassic, {{fossil_range|Anisian}}

| image = Heteropelta boboi.jpg

| image_caption = Holotype

| taxon = Heteropelta

| authority = Dalla Vecchia, 2021

| type_species = †Heteropelta boboi

| type_species_authority = Dalla Vecchia, 2021

}}

Heteropelta is an extinct genus of archosauriform, possibly a basal archosauriform, basal phytosaur or a suchian archosaur. It is known from a single species, Heteropelta boboi, which was found in the Middle Triassic Torbiditi d’Aupa Formation in Italy.{{Cite journal|last=Vecchia|first=Fabio Marco Dalla|date=2021-11-15|title=Heteropelta boboi n. gen., n. sp. an armored archosauriform (Reptilia: Archosauromorpha) from the Middle Triassic of Italy|url=https://peerj.com/articles/12468|journal=PeerJ|language=en|volume=9|pages=e12468|doi=10.7717/peerj.12468|pmid=34820195 |issn=2167-8359|doi-access=free|pmc=8601055}} The holotype is listed as specimen MFSN 46485 and was collected after 2006.Dalla Vecchia, F. M. (2006). Resti di Tanystropheus, saurotterigi e rauisuchi (Reptilia) nel Triassico medio della Val Aupa (Moggio Udinese, Udine) Gortania-Atti del Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale 27(2005):25-48