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TSEAJAIA
(see-hy-ah)
meaning: "Rock heart"
Tseajaia
Named By: P. P. Vaughn in 1964 in 1964
Time Period: Permian
Location: USA, Utah - Cutler Formation
Size: About 90 centimetres long
Diet: Uncertain, possibly an omnivore or herbivore
Fossil(s): Single individual
Classification: | Chordata | Reptiliomorpha | Diadectomorpha | Tseajaiidae |
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For the pterosaur, see Tapejara.

Tseajaia is an extinct genus of tetrapod. It was an anthracosaurian that lived in the Permian of North America. The skeleton is that of a medium-sized, rather advanced reptile-like amphibian. In life it was about 1 metre (3 ft) long and may have looked vaguely like an iguana, though slower and with a more amphibian foot without claws. The dentition was somewhat blunt, indicating herbivory or possibly omnivory.

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