Tupilakosaurus Explained

Tupilakosaurus is an extinct genus of dvinosaurian temnospondyl within the family Tupilakosauridae.

Two species are known:

• Tupilakosaurus heilmani Nielsen, 1954 — Wordie Creek Formation, Greenland^{[1] [2]}
• Tupilakosaurus wetlugensis Shishkin, 1961 — Vokhma and Kopanskaya Formation, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia

See also

• Prehistoric amphibian
• List of prehistoric amphibians

Notes and References

1. Nielsen . Eigil . Eigil Nielsen (paleontologist) . 1954 . Tupilakosaurus heilmani n. g. et n. sp. an interesting batrachomorph from the Triassic of East Greenland . Meddelelser om Grønland . 722 . 8 . 1–33.
2. Nielsen . Eigil . Eigil Nielsen (paleontologist) . 1967 . New observations on the skull-roof of the holotype of Tupilakosaurus heilmani Nielsen . Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoology) . 47 . 311 . 225–229 . 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1967.tb01405.x.