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Wetlugasaurus
Temporal range: Early Triassic
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
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")[1] is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Early Triassic (Olenekian) Charkabozh, Kzylsaiskaya, Petropavlovka, Kamennyi Yar and Vetluga Series Formations of northern Russia and Greenland.[2] It had a 22 centimetres (8.7 in) long skull, and reached a total length of 1 metre (3 ft 3 in).[citation needed]

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

Further reading

  • The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia by Michael J. Benton, Mikhail A. Shishkin, David M. Unwin, and Evgenii N. Kurochkin. p. 35-59.
  • Bibliography Of Fossil Vertebrates 1934-1938 by C. I. Camp


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