Wetlugasaurus

Wetlugasaurus Temporal range: Early Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Superclass:	Tetrapoda
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Temnospondyli
Superfamily:	Capitosauroidea
Family:	Capitosauridae
Genus:	Wetlugasaurus Riabinin, 1930
Species
W. angustifrons Riabinin, 1930 (type) W. malachovi Novikov, 1990 W. samarensis Sennikov, 1981

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.Its habitat is a river. The meaning of Wetlugasaurus is "wet lizard". It means dog latin for wet lizard ^[2]

Part of mandible of Wetlugasaurus samarensis

References

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

• 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