Wangosaurus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of reptiles}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Wangosaurus

| taxon = Wangosaurus

| fossil_range = Middle Triassic, {{fossil_range|237}}

| authority = Ma et al., 2015

| type_species = {{extinct}}Wangosaurus brevirostris

| type_species_authority = Ma et al., 2015

}}

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 measuring {{cvt|2.2|m|ft}} long (without only the rear part of its tail).{{cite journal |author=Le-Tian Ma |author2=Da-Yong Jiang |author3=Olivier Rieppel |author4=Ryosuke Motani |author5=Andrea Tintori |name-list-style=amp |year=2015 |title=A new pistosauroid (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the late Ladinian Xingyi marine reptile level, southwestern China |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=e881832 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2014.881832 |bibcode=2015JVPal..35E1832M |s2cid=130696958 }}