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(Redirected from Wetlugasaurus angustifrons) Extinct genus of temnospondyls

Wetlugasaurus
Temporal range: Olenekian PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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") 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

Luzocephalus

Capitosauridae

Samarabatrachus

Poryolosuchus

Parotosuchus

Selenocara

Wetlugasaurus

Vladlenosaurus

Qantas

Trematosauridae

Prothoosuchus

Thoosuchus

Trematotegmen

Angusaurus

Inflectosaurus

Trematosaurus

Syrtosuchus

Benthosuchus

Yarengiidae

Vyborosaurus

Yarengia

Benthosuchidae
Qantasidae
Lydekkerinidae

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. "Archive copy" (PDF). December 8, 2023.

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
Stereospondyli
Tetrapodomorpha
Temnospondyli
Stereospondyli
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Stereospondyli
Stereospondyli
Lapillopsidae
Rhinesuchidae
Lydekkerinidae
Capitosauria
Trematosauria
    • see below↓
Uranocentrodon senekalensis

Lydekkerina huxleyi

Paracyclotosaurus davidi
Trematosauria
Trematosauria
Benthosuchidae
Trematosauridae
Metoposauridae
Rhytidosteidae
Derwentiinae
Chigutisauridae
Brachyopidae
Plagiosauridae
Trematolestes hagdorni

Metoposaurus diagnosticus

Gerrothorax pulcherrimus
Taxon identifiers
Wetlugasaurus


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