Watsonisuchus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of temnospondyls}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon =Watsonisuchus

| image = Watsonisuchus.jpg

| image_caption = Holotype skull of W. gunganj

| fossil_range = Early Triassic

| authority = Ochev, 1966

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• {{extinct}}W. magnus (Watson, 1962) (type)
• {{extinct}}?W. aliciae (Warren and Hutchinson, 1988)
• {{extinct}}W. gunganj (Warren, 1980)
• {{extinct}}W. rewanensis (Warren, 1980)

| synonyms =

• Rewanobatrachus Schoch and Milner, 2000
• ?Warrenisuchus Maganuco et al., 2009

}}

Watsonisuchus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl from the Early Triassic of Australia, Madagascar, and South Africa.{{cite journal |last=Steyer |first=J. Sebastien |year=2003 |title=A revision of the Early Triassic "captisaurs" (Stegocephali, Stereospondyli) from Madagascar, with remarks on their comparative ontogeny |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=23 |issue=3 |pages=544–555 |doi=10.1671/1740 |bibcode=2003JVPal..23..544S |s2cid=85667716 }} It was up to 122 cm long and had a robust skull of 24 cm in length.{{Cite web |title=AmphibianS.xls |url=http://www.angellis.net/Web/PDfiles/amphs.pdf |access-date=2023-06-28 |website=angellis.net}}

Three or four species are known:'Dragons in the Dust: The Paleobiology of the Giant Monitor Lizard Megalania by Ralph E. Molnar (Pg. 39) W. magnus (the type species), W. aliciae (which may instead belong to Warrenisuchus), W. gunganj, and W. rewanensis''.