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.
| 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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| †Wangwusaurus tayuensis Zhongjian, 1979
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Description edit
One of the teeth found also has characteristics similar to those of gorgonopsians, which earned the chinese paleontologist Yang Zhongjian to classify him as the first member of this group to have lived outside of Russia and Africa, places where they are officially recognized.[1][2] However, three years later, in 1981, palaeontologists Denise Sigogneau-Russell and Ai-Lin Sun found the assigned material to be a random assemblage of which only two have even a remote similarity to gorgonopsians, making its classification uncertain.[3]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b Young, C. C. (1979). "A Late Permian fauna from Jiyuan, Henan". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 17 (2): 99–113.
- ^ Kammerer, C. F.; Masyutin, V. (2018). "Gorgonopsian therapsids (Nochnitsa gen. nov. and Viatkogorgon) from the Permian Kotelnich locality of Russia". PeerJ. 6: e4954. doi:10.7717/peerj.4954. PMC 5995105. PMID 29900078.
- ^ Sigogneau-Russell, D.; Sun, A.-L. (1981). "A brief review of Chinese synapsids". Geobios. 14 (2): 276. Bibcode:1981Geobi..14..275S. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(81)80012-5.
- Liu, Jun; Xu, Li; Jia, Song-Hai; Pu, Han-Yong; Liu, Xiao-Ling (2014). "The Jiyuan tetrapod fauna of the Upper Permian of China—2. stratigraphy, taxonomical review, and correlation". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 52 (3): 328–339.
- The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
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