Trimerorhachidae is a family of dvinosaurian temnospondyls, including Lafonius, Trimerorhachis, Procuhy and Neldasaurus.[1][2][3]

Trimerorhachidae
Skull of Trimerorhachis insignis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Temnospondyli
Suborder: Dvinosauria
Family: Trimerorhachidae
Cope, 1882
Diagram of trimerorhachid skulls

They were semiaquatic carnivores that lived from the Late Carboniferous to the Early Permian.[4]

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  1. ^ Yates, Adam M.; Warren, A. Anne (2000). "The phylogeny of the 'higher' temnospondyls (Vertebrata: Choanata) and its implications for the monophyly and origins of the Stereospondyli". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 128 (1): 89. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb00650.x.
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