Watsonisuchus

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]

Watsonisuchus
Temporal range: Early Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
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)

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. S2CID 85667716.
  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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