Watsonisuchus

Watsonisuchus
Temporal range: Early–Mid Triassic
Holotype skull of W. gunganj
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Tetrapoda
Order: †Temnospondyli
Suborder: †Stereospondyli
Clade: †Capitosauria
Genus: †Watsonisuchus
Ochev, 1966
Species
  • †W. magnus (Watson, 1962) (type)
  • †W. gunganj (Warren, 1980)
  • †W. rewanensis (Warren, 1980)
Synonyms
  • Rewanobatrachus Schoch and Milner, 2000
  • ?Warrenisuchus Maganuco et al., 2009

Watsonisuchus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl from the Early–Middle Triassic of Australia (The Crater, Arcadia Formation), Madagascar, and South Africa. It was up to 122 cm long and had a robust skull of 24 cm in length.

Three species are known: W. magnus (the type species), W. gunganj, and W. rewanensis.

References

  1. ↑ Poropat, S. F., Bell, P. R., Hart, L. J., Salisbury, S. W., & Kear, B. P. (2023). An annotated checklist of Australian Mesozoic tetrapods. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 47(2), 129–205.
  2. ↑ Scipione, M.; Vaucher, R.; Roberts, E.; et al. (2026). Shifting the Paradigm: Redefining the Chronostratigraphy of the Triassic Rewan Group, Bowen Basin, Australia. Basin Research, 38, no. 3: e70102.
  3. ↑ Steyer, J. Sebastien (2003). "A revision of the Early Triassic "captisaurs" (Stegocephali, Stereospondyli) from Madagascar, with remarks on their comparative ontogeny". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 23 (3): 544–555. Bibcode:2003JVPal..23..544S. doi:10.1671/1740. S2CID 85667716.
  4. ↑ "AmphibianS.xls" (PDF). angellis.net. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  5. ↑ Dragons in the Dust: The Paleobiology of the Giant Monitor Lizard Megalania by Ralph E. Molnar (Pg. 39)
  6. ↑ Warren, A. A. (1980). Parotosuchus from the Early Triassic of Queensland and Western Australia. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 4(1), 25–36.