Wumengosaurus
| Wumengosaurus Temporal range: Middle Triassic, Anisian | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Clade: | †Eosauropterygia |
| Genus: | †Wumengosaurus Jiang et al., 2008 |
| Type species | |
| †Wumengosaurus delicatomandibularis Jiang et al., 2008 | |
Wumengosaurus is an extinct aquatic reptile from the Middle Triassic (late Anisian stage) Guanling Formation of Guizhou, southwestern China. Originally described as a basal eosauropterygian, and usually recovered as such by recent phylogenetic analyses,[1][2][3] one recent phylogeny has placed it as the sister taxon to the Hupehsuchidae + Ichthyopterygia clade while refraining from a formal re-positioning.[4]
References
- ↑ Jiang, Da-Yong; Rieppel, Olivier; Motani, Ryosuke; Hao, Wei-Cheng; Sun, Yuan-Lin; Schmitz, Lars; Sun, Zuo-Yu (2008). "A New Middle Triassic Eosauropterygian (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from Southwestern China". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 (4): 1055–1062. doi:10.1671/0272-4634-28.4.1055.
- ↑ Cheng, Y. N.; Wu, X. C.; Sato, T.; Shan, H. Y. (2012). "A new eosauropterygian (Diapsida, Sauropterygia) from the Triassic of China". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32 (6): 1335. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.695983.
- ↑ Da-Yong Jiang, Ryosuke Motani, Andrea Tintori, Olivier Rieppel, Guan-Bao Chen, Jian-Dong Huang, Rong Zhang, Zuo-Yu Sun and Cheng Ji (2014). "The Early Triassic eosauropterygian Majiashanosaurus discocoracoidis, gen. et sp. nov. (Reptilia, Sauropterygia), from Chaohu, Anhui Province, People’s Republic of China". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34 (5): 1044–1052. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.846264.
- ↑ Chen, Xiao-hong; Motani, Ryosuke; Long, Chen; Jiang, Da-Yong; Rieppel, Olivier (2014). "The enigmatic marine reptile Nanchangosaurus from the Lower Triassic of Hubei, China and the phylogenetic affinities of Hupehsuchia". PLoS ONE 9 (7): e102361. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0102361.
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