Wangosaurus
Wangosaurus is an extinct genus of basal pistosauroid known from the Middle Triassic (late Ladinian stage) Falang Formation of Xingyi in Guizhou Province, southwestern China. It contains a single species, Wangosaurus brevirostris, first described and named by Le-Tian Ma, Da-Yong Jiang, Olivier Rieppel, Ryosuke Motani and Andrea Tintori in 2015. The specific name brevirostris comes from Greek for "short snout". It is known solely from its holotype, a nearly complete and articulated skeleton missing only the rear part of its tail.[1]
| Wangosaurus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Clade: | †Pistosauroidea |
| Genus: | †Wangosaurus Ma et al., 2015 |
| Type species | |
| †Wangosaurus brevirostris Ma et al., 2015 | |
References
- Le-Tian Ma; Da-Yong Jiang; Olivier Rieppel; Ryosuke Motani & Andrea Tintori (2015). "A new pistosauroid (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the late Ladinian Xingyi marine reptile level, southwestern China". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (1): e881832. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.881832.
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