Wetlugasaurus

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Wetlugasaurus
Temporal range: Early Triassic
Wetlugasaurus BW.jpg
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Wetlugasaurus

Riabinin, 1930
Species
  • W. angustifrons Riabinin, 1930 (type)
  • W. malachovi Novikov, 1990
  • W. samarensis Sennikov, 1981

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Wetlugasaurus (wet lizard) is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Early Triassic of northern Russia and Greenland.[1] It had a skull 22 cm long and reached a total length of 1 metre. The meaning of Wetlugasaurus is "wet lizard" due to its habitat, river banks near the Volga [2]

File:Part of mandible of Wetlugasaurus samarensis.JPG
Part of mandible of Wetlugasaurus samarensis

Remains

Only some teeth, skull fragments, a mandible, rib fragments, complete legs, and an almost complete tail were found.

References

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  • 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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  1. 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
  2. http://www.angellis.net/Web/PDfiles/amphs.pdf