Wangwusaurus

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Wangwusaurus
Temporal range: Late Permian 255  Ma
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade:† Gorgonopsia (?)
Genus:† Wangwusaurus
Zhongjian, 1979 in paleontology [1]
Species:
†W. tayuensis
Binomial name
†Wangwusaurus tayuensis
Zhongjian, 1979

Wangwusaurus is an extinct genus of probable therapsid that lived in the Late Permian in present-day China. Only one species is known, Wangwusaurus tayuensis, described by the paleontologist Yang Zhongjian in 1979 from seventeen teeth found in the Jiyuan formation, of which at least seven are recognized as not belonging to those of therapsids.

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Description

One of the teeth found also has characteristics similar to those of gorgonopsians, which led the Chinese paleontologist Yang Zhongjian to classify it as the first member of this group to have lived outside of Russia and Africa, places where they are officially recognized. [1] [2] However, three years later, in 1981, paleontologists Denise Sigogneau-Russell and Ai-Lin Sun found the assigned material to be a random assemblage of which only two have even a remote similarity to gorgonopsians, making its classification uncertain. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Young, C. C. (1979). "A Late Permian fauna from Jiyuan, Henan". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 17 (2): 99–113.
  2. ↑ Kammerer, C. F.; Masyutin, V. (2018). "Gorgonopsian therapsids (Nochnitsa gen. nov. and Viatkogorgon) from the Permian Kotelnich locality of Russia". PeerJ. 6 e4954. doi: 10.7717/peerj.4954 . PMC   5995105 . PMID   29900078.
  3. ↑ Sigogneau-Russell, D.; Sun, A.-L. (1981). "A brief review of Chinese synapsids". Geobios. 14 (2): 276. Bibcode:1981Geobi..14..275S. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(81)80012-5.
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