Watsonisuchus

Taxobox
name = "Watsonisuchus"

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fossil_range = Early Triassic
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
superclassis = Tetrapoda
classis = Amphibia
ordo = Temnospondyli
familia = Mastodonsauridae
genus = "Watsonisuchus"
genus_authority = Ochev, 1966
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
*"W. magnus" (type)
*"W. aliciae"
*"W. gunganj"
*"W. madagascariensis"

"Watsonisuchus" is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Early Triassic of Australia, Madagascar, and South Africa.cite journal |last=Steyer |first=J. Sebastien |year=2003 |title=A revision of the Early Triassic "captisaurs" (Stegocephali, Stereospondyli) from Madagascar, with remarks on their comparative ontogeny |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=23 |issue=3 |pages=544-555 ]

ources

* "Dragons in the Dust: The Paleobiology of the Giant Monitor Lizard Megalania" by Ralph E. Molnar (Pg. 39)