Watongia

Watongia
Temporal range: Middle Permian
Restoration
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Family: †Varanopidae
Subfamily: †Varanopinae
Genus: †Watongia
Olson, 1974
Type species
†Watongia meieri
Olson, 1974

Watongia is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid from Middle Permian of Oklahoma. Only one species has been described, Watongia meieri, from the Chickasha Formation.[1] It was assigned to family Gorgonopsidae by Olson[1] and to Eotitanosuchia by Carroll.[2] Reisz and collaborators assigned the genus in Varanopidae.[3][4]

Based on scaling with other synapsids, length of Watongia was about 2-2.5 meters, making it the largest of the family Varanopidae.[5]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Olson, E.C. 1974. On the Source of Therapsids. Annals of the South African Museum 64: 27-46.
  2. ↑ Carroll, R. L. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. W. H Freeman Company, 1988.
  3. ↑ Reisz, R. R. & Laurin, M. 2004. A reevaluation of the enigmatic Permian synapsid Watongia and of its stratigraphic significance. Canadian Journal of Earth Science 41, 377–386.
  4. ↑ Maddin, H.C., Evans, D.C. & Reisz, R.R. 2006. An Early Permian varanodontine varanopid (Synapsida: Eupelycosauria) from the Richards Spur locality, Oklahoma. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26 (4): 957-966.
  5. ↑ http://manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/watongia/
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