Wetlugasaurus (meaning "Vetluga River lizard") 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. It had a 22 centimetres (8.7 in) long skull, and reached a total length of 1 metre (3 ft 3 in).
Phylogeny
Wetlugasaurus in a cladogram after Novikov (2018) with only Early Triassic Eastern Europe taxa included:4
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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
References
Rybin, Ivan (2018) "In Search of Kostroma Crocodile" Russian Geographical Society.' http://www.rgo.ru/en/article/search-kostroma-crocodile ↩
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. S2CID 85667716. /wiki/Doi_(identifier) ↩
"AmphibianS.xls" (PDF). angellis.net. Retrieved 2023-06-28. 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 (PDF) (in Russian). Moscow: RAS. p. 138. ISBN 978-5-906906-71-7. "Archive copy" (PDF). December 8, 2023. 978-5-906906-71-7 ↩