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Watsonisuchus magnus
Taxonomy
Wetlugasaurus magnus was named by Watson (1962). Its type specimen is UMZC T173, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Watford Form, Burgersdorp, which is in a Spathian terrestrial sandstone in the Burgersdorp Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Watsonisuchus.
It was synonymized subjectively with Kestrosaurus dreyeri by Shishkin et al. (2004); it was recombined as Watsonisuchus magnus by Damiani (2001), Damiani and Rubidge (2003), Maganuco et al. (2009), Poropat et al. (2023).
It was synonymized subjectively with Kestrosaurus dreyeri by Shishkin et al. (2004); it was recombined as Watsonisuchus magnus by Damiani (2001), Damiani and Rubidge (2003), Maganuco et al. (2009), Poropat et al. (2023).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1962 | Wetlugasaurus magnus Watson |
| 2001 | Watsonisuchus magnus Damiani p. 428 |
| 2003 | Watsonisuchus magnus Damiani and Rubidge p. 27 |
| 2009 | Watsonisuchus magnus Maganuco et al. p. 36 |
| 2023 | Watsonisuchus magnus Poropat et al. p. 136 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Watsonisuchus magnus Watson 1962
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Uhen 2004, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||