Watongia
| Watongia Temporal range: Middle Permian | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Family: | †Varanopidae |
| Subfamily: | †Varanodontinae |
| Genus: | †Watongia Olson, 1974 |
| Type species | |
| †Watongia meieri Olson, 1974 | |
Watongia is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid from Middle Permian of Oklahoma. Only one species has been described, Watongia meieri, from the Chickasha Formation.[1] It was assigned to family Gorgonopsidae by Olson[1] and to Eotitanosuchia by Carroll.[2] Reisz and collaborators assigned the genus in Varanopidae.[3][4]
Based on scaling with other synapsids, length of Watongia was about 2-2.5 meters, making it the largest of the family Varanopidae.[5]
See also
References
- 1 2 Olson, E.C. 1974. On the Source of Therapsids. Annals of the South African Museum 64: 27-46.
- ↑ Carroll, R. L. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. W. H Freeman Company, 1988.
- ↑ Reisz, R. R. & Laurin, M. 2004. A reevaluation of the enigmatic Permian synapsid Watongia and of its stratigraphic significance. Canadian Journal of Earth Science 41, 377–386.
- ↑ Maddin, H.C., Evans, D.C. & Reisz, R.R. 2006. An Early Permian varanodontine varanopid (Synapsida: Eupelycosauria) from the Richards Spur locality, Oklahoma. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26 (4): 957-966.
- ↑ http://manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/watongia/
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