Bulgosuchus

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]

Bulgosuchus Temporal range: Early Triassic, Olenekian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Holotype mandible of B. gargantua
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Tetrapoda
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

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]

See also

• Paleontology portal

• Prehistoric amphibian
• List of prehistoric amphibians