Wangosaurus

Wangosaurus Temporal range: Middle Triassic, 237 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
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]

References

1. Wang, W.; Shang, Q.; Wang, J.; Zi, H.; Li, C. (2025). "Earliest long-necked sauropterygian Lijiangosaurus yongshengensis and plasticity of vertebral evolution in sauropterygian marine reptiles". Communications Biology. 8 1551. doi:10.1038/s42003-025-08911-1.
2. 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.