Wetlugasaurus
Wetlugasaurus Temporal range: Early Triassic | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Superclass: | Tetrapoda |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Temnospondyli |
Superfamily: | Capitosauroidea |
Family: | Capitosauridae |
Genus: | Wetlugasaurus Riabinin, 1930 |
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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.Its habitat is a river. The meaning of Wetlugasaurus is "wet lizard". It means dog latin for wet lizard [2]
References
- 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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