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Wangosaurus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superorder
  
†Sauropterygia

Phylum
  
Chordata

Class
  
Reptilia

Clade
  
†Pistosauroidea

Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
Qianxisaurus, Diandongosaurus, Macroplacus, Pararcus, Dianopachysaurus

Wangosaurus is an extinct genus of basal pistosauroid 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 missing only the rear part of its tail.

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Wangosaurus Wikipedia