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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