Watongia

Watongia is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsids 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]

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

Based on scaling with other synapsids, length of Watongia was about 2 to 2.5 metres (6 ft 7 in to 8 ft 2 in), making it the largest of the family Varanopidae.[5]

See also

References
  1. 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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