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]
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References
- ↑ Rybin, Ivan (2018) "In Search of Kostroma Crocodile" Russian Geographical Society.'
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "AmphibianS.xls". http://www.angellis.net/Web/PDfiles/amphs.pdf.
- ↑ 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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