Kwangsisaurus

Kwangsisaurus
Temporal range: Early-Middle Triassic, 251–247 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Sauropterygia
Clade: Pistosauroidea
Genus: Kwangsisaurus
Young, 1965
Type species
Kwangsisaurus orientalis
Young, 1965

Kwangsisaurus is an extinct genus of a basal pistosauroid[1] known from the Early or Middle Triassic (Olenekian or Anisian age) of Guangxi, southern China. It contains a single species, Kwangsisaurus orientalis.[2]

  1. ^ Olivier Rieppel (1999). "The sauropterygian genera Chinchenia, Kwangsisaurus, and Sanchiaosaurus from the Lower and Middle Triassic of China". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 19 (2): 321–337. Bibcode:1999JVPal..19..321R. doi:10.1080/02724634.1999.10011144.
  2. ^ Chung-Chien Young (1965). "On the new nothosaurs from Hupeh and Kweichou, China". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 9 (4): 337–356.