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Watsonisuchus

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Watsonisuchus
Temporal range: Early Triassic
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: †Temnospondyli
Suborder: †Stereospondyli
Clade: †Capitosauria
Genus: †Watsonisuchus
Ochev, 1966
Synonyms
Genus-level:
  • Rewanobatrachus Schoch and Milner, 2000
  • ?Warrenisuchus Maganuco et al., 2009
Species-level:
  • †W. magnus (Watson, 1962) (type)
  • †?W. aliciae (Warren and Hutchinson, 1988)
  • †W. gunganj (Warren, 1980)
  • †W. rewanensis (Warren, 1980)

Watsonisuchus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Early Triassic of Australia, Madagascar, and South Africa.[1] It was up to 122 cm long and had a robust skull of 24 cm in length.[2]

References

  1. ^ 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. doi:10.1671/1740.
  2. ^ http://www.angellis.net/Web/PDfiles/amphs.pdf
  • Dragons in the Dust: The Paleobiology of the Giant Monitor Lizard Megalania by Ralph E. Molnar (Pg. 39)


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