Bulgosuchus

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Bulgosuchus
Temporal range: Early Triassic, Olenekian
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Bulgosuchus holotype.png
Holotype mandible of B. gargantua
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
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 Bulgo Sandstone biota.jpg
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]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Bulgosuchus gargantua Damiani, 1999". Museums Victoria . Retrieved 11 June 2018.
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