| Kwangsisaurus Temporal range: Early-Middle Triassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Clade: | †Pistosauroidea |
| Genus: | †Kwangsisaurus Young, 1965 |
| Type species | |
| †Kwangsisaurus orientalis Young, 1965
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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]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Chung-Chien Young (1965). "On the new nothosaurs from Hupeh and Kweichou, China". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 9 (4): 337–356.