Watsonisuchus

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

Watsonisuchus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian 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]

References

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.
http://www.angellis.net/Web/PDfiles/amphs.pdf

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

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