| Wangosaurus Temporal range: Middle Triassic, | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | † Sauropterygia |
| Clade: | † Eosauropterygia |
| Genus: | † Wangosaurus Ma et al., 2015 |
| Type species | |
| †Wangosaurus brevirostris Ma et al., 2015 | |
Wangosaurus is an extinct genus of basal eosauropterygian, either a pisotosauroid or a nothosaur, [1] 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). [2]
