| Wangosaurus Temporal range: Middle Triassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| 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,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
References
- 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. PMC 12606328.
- 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.