Lydekkerina
| Lydekkerina Temporal range: Early Triassic | |
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| Skull and skeleton (USNM 23354) of Lydekkerina, National Museum of Natural History | |
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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.