''Neldasaurus'' is an extinct
genus
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of
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 ...
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temnospondyl
Temnospondyli (from Greek language, Greek τέμνειν, ''temnein'' 'to cut' and σπόνδυλος, ''spondylos'' 'vertebra') is a diverse order (biology), order of small to giant tetrapods—often considered Labyrinthodontia, primitive amphi ...
within the
family
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Trimerorhachidae
Trimerorhachidae is a family of dvinosaurian temnospondyls, including Trimerorhachis and Neldasaurus.
They are vertebrates and carnivores.
Gallery
Trimerorhachis insignis life restoration.jpg, '' Trimerorhachis insignis'', of the early Permia ...
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References
Dvinosaurs
Cisuralian temnospondyls of North America
Permian geology of Texas
Fossil taxa described in 1965
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