Wetlugasaurus
Temporal range: Olenekian
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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 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]

Phylogeny

Wetlugasaurus in a cladogram after Novikov (2018) with only Early Triassic Eastern Europe taxa included:[3]

Temnospondyli

Luzocephalus

Capitosauridae

Samarabatrachus

Poryolosuchus

Parotosuchus

Selenocara

Wetlugasaurus

Vladlenosaurus

Qantasidae

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. ^ 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.

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