Parotosuchus

Taxobox
fossil_range = Early Triassic

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image_caption = "Parotosuchus orenburgensis"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
superclassis = Tetrapoda
classis = Amphibia
ordo = Temnospondyli
familia = ***
genus = Parotosuchus
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "Parotosuchus helgolandicus"Verify source|date=November 2007
* "Parotosuchus orenburgensis"

"Parotosuchus" is a two-metre-long (6.5-feet) giant salamander-like predator that lived 40 million years before the first dinosaurs, inhabiting lakes and rivers and is a member of the Temnospondyli group. Parotosuchus was covered in a scaly skin, unlike the smooth skin of modern-day amphibians, and probably moved with an eel-like motion in the water. [ [http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070403/sc_afp/sciencepalaeontologyfossilantarctica;_ylt=A0SOwka0uSBGD5EA9A8PLBIF Yahoo News: Antarctic fossil prompts rethink about amphibian history] ]

References

Further reading

*Parotosuchus (Temnospondyli: Mastodonsauridae) from the Triassic of Antarctica. Christian A. Sidor, J. Sebastien Steyer and Ross Damiani, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2007, 27(1):232–235