Bulgosuchus Temporal range: Early Triassic, | |
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Holotype mandible of B. gargantua | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
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 | |
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]