''Tupilakosaurus'' is an extinct

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

dvinosauria Dvinosaurs are one of several new clades of Temnospondyl amphibians named in the phylogenetic review of the group by Yates and Warren 2000. They represent a group of primitive semi-aquatic to completely aquatic amphibians, and are known from t ...

temnospondyl Temnospondyli (from Greek τέμνειν, ''temnein'' 'to cut' and σπόνδυλος, ''spondylos'' 'vertebra') is a diverse order of small to giant tetrapods—often considered primitive amphibians—that flourished worldwide during the Carb ...

within the

family Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Idea ...

Tupilakosauridae Tupilakosauridae is an extinct family of dvinosaurian temnospondyls. It contains the genera ''Slaugenhopia'', '' Thabanchuia'', ''Tupilakosaurus'', and possibly ''Kourerpeton''. Tupilakosaurs are known from Texas, Greenland, Russia, and Fran ...

. Two species are known: *''Tupilakosaurus heilmani'' Nielsen, 1954 —

Wordie Creek Formation The Wordie Creek Formation is a geologic formation in Greenland. The Triassic Sediments from the region were first discovered in 1926 and preserve fossils dating back to the Triassic period. The temnospondyl '' Selenocara'' is from this formati ...

, Greenland *''Tupilakosaurus wetlugensis'' Shishkin, 1961 —

Vokhma Vokhma (russian: Во́хма) is a rural locality (a ''settlement'') and the administrative center of Vokhomsky District, Kostroma Oblast, Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Eu ...

and Kopanskaya Formation,

Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (russian: link=no, Нижегородская область, ''Nizhegorodskaya oblast''), is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Nizhny Novgorod. It has a population of 3,3 ...

, Russia

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Dvinosaurs Induan genera Triassic temnospondyls of Europe Fossils of Greenland Triassic Greenland Fossil taxa described in 1954 {{triassic-animal-stub

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