Biology:Wetlugasaurus

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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).[3]

Phylogeny

Wetlugasaurus in a cladogram after Novikov (2018) with only Early Triassic Eastern Europe taxa included:[4]

Temnospondyli

Luzocephalus

Capitosauridae

Samarabatrachus

Poryolosuchus

Parotosuchus

Selenocara

Wetlugasaurus

Vladlenosaurus

Qantas

Trematosauridae

Prothoosuchus

Thoosuchus

Trematotegmen

Angusaurus

Inflectosaurus

Trematosaurus

Syrtosuchus

Benthosuchus

Yarengiidae

Vyborosaurus

Yarengia

Benthosuchidae
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. 
  3. "AmphibianS.xls". http://www.angellis.net/Web/PDfiles/amphs.pdf. 
  4. Novikov A.V. (2018). Early Triassic amphibians of Eastern Europe: evolution of dominant groups and peculiarities of changing communities. Moscow: RAS. p. 138. ISBN 978-5-906906-71-7. https://new.ras.ru/upload/iblock/7de/j85vtubof3mlf81izrqq9u9oh9eb5lrh.pdf. Retrieved February 8, 2024. 

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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