Watongia meieri
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''Watongia'' is an extinct genus of non-
mammal Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur or ...
ian synapsids from Middle Permian of
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. Only one species has been described, ''Watongia meieri'', from the
Chickasha Formation The Chickasha Formation is a geologic formation in Oklahoma. It preserves fossils dating back to the Permian period. See also * List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Oklahoma * Paleontology in Oklahoma Paleontology in Oklahoma refers ...
. It was assigned to family
Gorgonopsidae Gorgonopsia (from the Greek Gorgon, a mythological beast, and 'aspect') is an extinct clade of sabre-toothed therapsids from the Middle to Upper Permian roughly 265 to 252 million years ago. They are characterised by a long and narrow skull, ...
by OlsonOlson, E.C. 1974. On the Source of Therapsids. ''Annals of the South African Museum'' 64: 27-46. and to
Eotitanosuchia Eotitanosuchidae is an extinct family of biarmosuchian therapsids. The Eotitanosuchidae were large predatory therapsids of the Wordian epoch. It was once considered to belong to a separate infraorder of therapsids called Eotitanosuchia. Characte ...
by Carroll. Reisz and collaborators assigned the genus in Varanopidae. Based on scaling with other
synapsids Synapsids + (, 'arch') > () "having a fused arch"; synonymous with ''theropsids'' (Greek, "beast-face") are one of the two major groups of animals that evolved from basal amniotes, the other being the Sauropsida, sauropsids, the group that inc ...
, length of ''Watongia'' was about , making it the largest of the family Varanopidae.Watongia , mAnasa-taraMgiNI
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See also

* List of pelycosaurs


References


External links


The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
Varanopids Prehistoric synapsid genera Guadalupian synapsids of North America Taxa named by Everett C. Olson Fossil taxa described in 1974 {{paleo-synapsid-stub