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 measuring 2.2 m (7.2 ft) long (without only the rear part of its tail).[1]

Wangosaurus
Temporal range: Middle Triassic, 237 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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

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  1. ^ 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. Bibcode:2015JVPal..35E1832M. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.881832. S2CID 130696958.