Tupilakosaurus is an extinct genus of dvinosaurian temnospondyl within the family Tupilakosauridae.[1]
| Tupilakosaurus Temporal range: Induan,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Suborder: | †Dvinosauria |
| Family: | †Tupilakosauridae |
| Genus: | †Tupilakosaurus Nielsen, 1954 |
| Type species | |
| †Tupilakosaurus heilmani Nielsen, 1954
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Two species are known:[1]
- Tupilakosaurus heilmani Nielsen, 1954 — Wordie Creek Formation, Greenland[2][3]
- Tupilakosaurus wetlugensis Shishkin, 1961 — Vokhma and Kopanskaya Formation, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "†Tupilakosaurus Nielsen 1954". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ Nielsen, Eigil (1954). "Tupilakosaurus heilmani n. g. et n. sp. an interesting batrachomorph from the Triassic of East Greenland". Meddelelser om Grønland. 722 (8): 1–33.
- ^ Nielsen, Eigil (1967). "New observations on the skull-roof of the holotype of Tupilakosaurus heilmani Nielsen". Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoology). 47 (311): 225–229. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1967.tb01405.x.
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