Watsonisuchus

Watsonisuchus; Temporal range: Early Triassic
	Holotype skull of W. gunganj
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	†Temnospondyli
Suborder:	†Stereospondyli
Clade:	†Capitosauria
Genus:	†Watsonisuchus; Ochev, 1966
Species
	†W. magnus (Watson, 1962) (type); †?W. aliciae (Warren and Hutchinson, 1988); †W. gunganj (Warren, 1980); †W. rewanensis (Warren, 1980);
Synonyms
	Rewanobatrachus Schoch and Milner, 2000; ?Warrenisuchus Maganuco et al., 2009;

Watsonisuchus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl from the Early Triassic of Australia, Madagascar, and South Africa.^[1] It was up to 122 cm long and had a robust skull of 24 cm in length.^[2]

Three or four species are known:^[3] W. magnus (the type species), W. aliciae (which may instead belong to Warrenisuchus), W. gunganj, and W. rewanensis.

References[edit]

^ Steyer, J. Sebastien (2003). "A revision of the Early Triassic "captisaurs" (Stegocephali, Stereospondyli) from Madagascar, with remarks on their comparative ontogeny". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 23 (3): 544–555. doi:10.1671/1740. S2CID 85667716.
^ "AmphibianS.xls" (PDF). angellis.net. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
^ 'Dragons in the Dust: The Paleobiology of the Giant Monitor Lizard Megalania by Ralph E. Molnar (Pg. 39)

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[JSS03-1] Steyer, J. Sebastien (2003). "A revision of the Early Triassic "captisaurs" (Stegocephali, Stereospondyli) from Madagascar, with remarks on their comparative ontogeny". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 23 (3): 544–555. doi:10.1671/1740. S2CID 85667716.

[2] "AmphibianS.xls" (PDF). angellis.net. Retrieved 2023-06-28.

[3] 'Dragons in the Dust: The Paleobiology of the Giant Monitor Lizard Megalania by Ralph E. Molnar (Pg. 39)

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