Tseajaia
species of animal
Tseajaia is an extinct genus of diadectomorph tetrapod from the Early Permian of western North America. The skeleton is that of a medium-sized, rather advanced reptile-like animal. In life it was about 1 metre (3 ft) long and may have looked vaguely like an iguana. The dentition was somewhat blunt, indicating herbivory or possibly omnivory. It contains a single known species, Tseajaia campi.
Discovery
The holotype of Tseajaia is a nearly complete skeleton, specimen UCMP V4225 / 59012, which is from the lowermost Organ Rock Shale or uppermost Cedar Mesa Sandstone. It was discovered by a field party led by Charles L. Camp working in San Juan County, Utah in June, 1942. The field work and the resulting discovery of Tseajaia was recorded in a 1942 article in Desert Magazine. A second specimen, UCMP V4216 / 63841, is a sequence of vertebrae from the same locality, also discovered by Camp's team. Two additional nearly complete skeletons, CM 38033 and CM 38042, were later discovered in the Cutler Formation of Rio Arriba County, New Mexico.
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