Watsonisuchus

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Watsonisuchus
Fossil range: Early Triassic

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Superclass: Tetrapoda
Class: Amphibia
Order: Temnospondyli
Family: Mastodonsauridae
Genus: Watsonisuchus
Ochev, 1966
Species
  • W. magnus (type)
  • W. aliciae
  • W. gunganj
  • W. madagascariensis

Watsonisuchus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Early Triassic of Australia, Madagascar, and South Africa.[1]

[edit] Sources

  1. ^ Steyer, J. Sebastien (2003). "A revision of the Early Triassic "captisaurs" (Stegocephali, Stereospondyli) from Madagascar, with remarks on their comparative ontogeny". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23 (3): 544-555. 
  • Dragons in the Dust: The Paleobiology of the Giant Monitor Lizard Megalania by Ralph E. Molnar (Pg. 39)
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