Wangosaurus
Wangosaurus Temporal range: Middle Triassic,
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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
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Wangosaurus is an extinct genus of basal pistosauroid known from the Middle Triassic (late Ladinian stage) 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]
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. S2CID 130696958.
Categories:
- Pistosaurs
- Triassic sauropterygians
- Ladinian genera
- Middle Triassic reptiles of Asia
- Triassic China
- Fossils of China
- Paleontology in Guizhou
- Xingyi, Guizhou
- Fossil taxa described in 2015
- Sauropterygian genera
- Triassic reptile stubs