Offered is a very rare item for the specialist; a well preserved and essentially complete 7cm skull and 6.5cm upper body of the Termnospondyl Watsonisuchus madagascarensi from the Lower Triassic; Dienentian, Middle Sankamena Formation of Bororoha, Madagascar.

Dorso-ventrally preserved, with good 3D relief of the skull, the bones are replaced with limonite; the skull and shows the mid-position of the orbits, all of the cranial plates and both upper and lower mandibles with dentition.

The anterior vertebral column, with lateral ribs that will prepare further, is intact and the distinct surface ornamentation of the pectoral and scapular bones reserved sharply. Termnospondyls are regarded as semi-aquatic tetrapod vertebrates, probably ancesteral to modern amphibia such as salamanders ................in all a fascinating legacy of early Permian colonization of land.

Matrix approx. 14.5cm X 8.5cm X 1cm.