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

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