| Lydekkerina Temporal range: Early Triassic
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| Skull and skeleton (USNM 23354) of Lydekkerina, National Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
| Family: | †Lydekkerinidae |
| Genus: | †Lydekkerina Broom, 1915 |
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Lydekkerina is an extinct genus of stereospondyl temnospondyl. It is the type genus of the family Lydekkerinidae. Fossils have been collected from Early Triassic deposits in South Africa and Australia. The type species is L. huxleyi, first described in 1889. While most other stereospondyls were semiaquatic, Lydekkerina was exclusively terrestrial.[2][3]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
fossilworkswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Pawley, K.; Warren, A. (2005). "A terrestrial stereospondyl from the Lower Triassic of South Africa: the postcranial skeleton of Lydekkerina huxleyi (Amphibia: Temnospondyli)". Palaeontology. 48 (2): 281–298. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2005.00446.x.
- ^ Jeannot, A.M.; Damiani, R.; Rubidge, B.S. (2006). "Cranial anatomy of the Early Triassic stereospondyl Lydekkerina huxleyi (Tetrapoda: Temnospondyli) and the taxonomy of South African lydekkerinids". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 26 (4): 822–838. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[822:CAOTET]2.0.CO;2.