Wangisuchus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
| Clade: | Archosauriformes |
| Genus: | †Wangisuchus Young, 1964 |
| Species: | †W. tzeyi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Wangisuchus tzeyi Young, 1964
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Wangisuchus is an
archosauriform reptile from the Middle Triassic of China that is known from fragmentary fossil jaw bones. These bones were found at the Hsishihwa locality in the upper Ermaying Formation, which dates to the late Anisian stage about 242 million years ago. Wangisuchus was named in 1964 by Chinese paleontologist Yang Zhongjian, who described a single species, Wangisuchus tzeyii, on the basis of these bones.[1]
Classification
Yang classified Wangisuchus in the family Euparkeriidae, which also includes the much better known Euparkeria from the Early Triassic of South Africa. He diagnosed Wangisuchus by the following characters: long and low shape of the maxilla; pointed posterior process of the maxilla; rounded anterior margin of the maxilla; thecodont tooth implantation; crurotarsal (crocodile-like) structure of the ankle.[2]
Later authors noted that a
Archosauria than to Proterosuchus.[7]
References
- ^ S2CID 219205317.
- ^ Young, CC (1964). "The pseudosuchians in China". Palaeontologia Sinica. 151: 1–205.
- ^ Kuhn O. 1976. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie. Stuttgart/New York: Gustav Fischer Verlag.
- ^ Gower DJ, Sennikov AG. 2000. Early archosaurs from Russia. In: Benton MJ, Shishkin MA, Unwin DM, Kurochkin EN, eds. The age of dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. New York: Cambridge University Press. 140-159
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- ^ Sterling J. Nesbitt (2009). "The early evolution of archosaurs: Relationships and the origin of major clades". Columbia University (open access dissertation): 1–632.
- PMID 25469319.