Genre
Valide Éteint

Wangosaurus

Ma et al. 2015

Wangosaurus is an extinct genus of basal eosauropterygian, either a pisotosauroid or a nothosaur, known from the Middle Triassic 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.

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Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
2
Groupe
Sauroptérygiens
Marin
Classification
Sauropterygia Sous-ordre
Eosauropterygia Ordre
Pistosauroidea Sous-ordre
Wangosaurus Genre
Sites de découverte 2 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇨🇳 Chine
2
Formations géologiques
Falang
2
Distribution temporelle
Ladinien (241.464–237 Ma)
2
Espèces (1)
Wangosaurus brevirostris 239 Ma
Bibliographie
Description originale
L.-T. Ma, D.-Y. Jiang, and O. Rieppel, R. Motani, A. 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 ↗
Bibliographie (2)
H. Lu, D.-Y. Jiang, and R. Motani, P.-G. Ni, Z.-Y. Sun, A. Tintori, S.-Z. Xiao, M. Zhou, C. Ji, W.-F. Fu. 2018. Middle Triassic Xingyi Fauna: Showing turnover of marine reptiles from coastal to oceanic environments. Palaeoworld 27(1):107-116 DOI ↗
L.-T. Ma, D.-Y. Jiang, and O. Rieppel, R. Motani, A. 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 ↗