Wangosaurus
| Wangosaurus Temporal range: Middle Triassic,
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| 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
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Wangosaurus is an extinct genus of basal eosauropterygian, either a pisotosauroid or a nothosaur, 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).