Wetlugasaurus

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).

Wetlugasaurus
Temporal range: Early Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: †Temnospondyli
Suborder: †Stereospondyli
Clade: †Capitosauria
Family: †Mastodonsauridae
Genus: †Wetlugasaurus
Riabinin, 1930
Species
  • †W. angustifrons Riabinin, 1930 (type)
  • †W. malachovi Novikov, 1990

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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