Wetlugasaurus

Wetlugasaurus
Temporal range: Olenekian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Tetrapoda
Order: †Temnospondyli
Suborder: †Stereospondyli
Clade: †Capitosauria
Family: †Mastodonsauridae
Genus: †Wetlugasaurus
Riabinin, 1930
Species
  • †W. angustifrons Riabinin, 1930 (type)
  • †W. malachovi Novikov, 1990

Wetlugasaurus (meaning "Vetluga River lizard") is an extinct genus of temnospondyl from the Early Triassic (Olenekian) Charkabozh, Kzylsaiskaya, Petropavlovka, Kamennyi Yar and Vetluga Series Formations of northern Russia and Greenland. It had a 22 centimetres (8.7 in) long skull, and reached a total length of 1 metre (3 ft 3 in).

Phylogeny

Wetlugasaurus in a cladogram after Novikov (2018) with only Early Triassic Eastern Europe taxa included:

Temnospondyli

References

  1. ↑ Rybin, Ivan (2018) "In Search of Kostroma Crocodile" Russian Geographical Society.'
  2. ↑ Steyer, J. S. (2003). "A revision of the Early Triassic "Capitosaurs" (Stegocephali, Stereospondyli) from Madagascar, with remarks on their comparative ontogeny". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 23 (3): 544–555. doi:10.1671/1740. S2CID 85667716.
  3. ↑ "AmphibianS.xls" (PDF). angellis.net. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  4. ↑ Novikov A.V. (2018). Early Triassic amphibians of Eastern Europe: evolution of dominant groups and peculiarities of changing communities (PDF) (in Russian). Moscow: RAS. p. 138. ISBN 978-5-906906-71-7. Archived from the original on December 8, 2023. Retrieved February 8, 2024.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) CS1 maint: publisher location (link)

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