Bulgosuchus

Bulgosuchus Temporal range: Early Triassic, Olenekian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Holotype mandible of B. gargantua
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Tetrapoda
Order:	† Temnospondyli
Suborder:	† Stereospondyli
Clade:	† Capitosauria
Family:	† Mastodonsauridae
Genus:	† Bulgosuchus Damiani, 1999
Species:	†B. gargantua
Binomial name
†Bulgosuchus gargantua Damiani, 1999

Life reconstruction (left foreground) in an Early Triassic landscape, art by Michael Rothman

Bulgosuchus ^[1] is an extinct genus of prehistoric amphibians, known from an incomplete mandible and a femur recovered from the Bulgo Sandstone at Long Reef in Sydney, Australia. The type species is Bulgosuchus gargantua, which was named in 1999. ^{[2] [1]}

The type specimen is AM F80190, the posterior glenoid section of a left mandibular ramus, and the mandible is estimated to have been at least one metre long. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

At the time of discovery, Bulgosuchus was described as the largest known temnospondyl from the Early Triassic. ^{[4] [5]}

See also

• Paleontology portal

• Prehistoric amphibian
• List of prehistoric amphibians

References

1. "Bulgosuchus gargantua Damiani, 1999". Museums Victoria . Retrieved 11 June 2018.
2. Damiani, Ross J. (1999). "Giant temnospondyl amphibians from the Early to Middle Triassic Narrabeen Group of the Sydney Basin, New South Wales, Australia". Alcheringa. 23 (2): 87–109. doi:10.1080/03115519908619324.
3. Kear, Benjamin P.; Hamilton-Bruce, Robert J. (2011). Dinosaurs in Australia: Mesozoic Life from the Southern Continent. CSIRO Publishing. p. 48. ISBN   9780643102316.
4. DAMIANI, ROSS J. (2001). "A systematic revision and phylogenetic analysis of Triassic mastodonsauroids (Temnospondyli: Stereospondyli)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 133 (4): 379–482. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2001.tb00635.x . ISSN   0024-4082.
5. Poropat, Stephen F.; Bell, Phil R.; Hart, Lachlan J.; Salisbury, Steven W.; Kear, Benjamin P. (2023-04-03). "An annotated checklist of Australian Mesozoic tetrapods". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 47 (2): 129–205. doi: 10.1080/03115518.2023.2228367 . hdl: 20.500.11937/96166 . ISSN   0311-5518.