Tupilakosaurus

Tupilakosaurus is an extinct genus of dvinosaurian temnospondyl within the family Tupilakosauridae.^[1]

Tupilakosaurus Temporal range: Induan, 252.3–251.3 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Tetrapoda
Order:	†Temnospondyli
Suborder:	†Dvinosauria
Family:	†Tupilakosauridae
Genus:	†Tupilakosaurus Nielsen, 1954
Type species
†Tupilakosaurus heilmani Nielsen, 1954

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

• Prehistoric amphibian
• List of prehistoric amphibians