| Wangwusaurus Temporal range: Late Permian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | †Gorgonopsia (?) |
| Genus: | †Wangwusaurus Zhongjian, 1979 in paleontology[1] |
| Species: | †W. tayuensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Wangwusaurus tayuensis Zhongjian, 1979
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Wangwusaurus is extinct genus of probable therapsid that lived in the Late Permian in present-day China. Only species is known, Wangwusaurus tayuensis, described by the paleontologist Yang Zhongjian in 1979 from seventeen teeth found in the Jiyuan formation, of which at least seven are recognized as not belonging to those of therapsids.
- ^ Young, C. C. (1979). "A Late Permian fauna from Jiyuan, Henan". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 17 (2): 99–113.