Wumengosaurus

Wumengosaurus is an extinct aquatic reptile from the Middle Triassic (late Anisian stage) Guanling Formation of Guizhou, southwestern China. It was originally described as a basal eosauropterygian and usually is recovered as such by phylogenetic analyses,[1][2][3] although one phylogeny has placed it as the sister taxon to Ichthyosauromorpha while refraining from a formal re-positioning.[4] It was a relatively small reptile, measuring 95.5–130.5 cm (3.13–4.28 ft) in total body length and weighing 6 kg (13 lb).[1][5]

Wumengosaurus
Temporal range: Anisian,
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Sauropterygia
Clade: Eosauropterygia
Genus: Wumengosaurus
Jiang et al., 2008
Type species
Wumengosaurus delicatomandibularis
Jiang et al., 2008
Other species
  • W. rotundicarpus Qin et al. 2021

In 2021, Qin et al. described an additional specimen from Guizhou (Panzhou District) as a new species of Wumengosaurus, W. rotundicarpus.[6]

Classification

In the 2023 description of Luopingosaurus, Xu et al. recovered Wumengosaurus as a derived pachypleurosaurid, as the sister taxon to the clade formed by Luopingosaurus and Honghesaurus. The results of their phylogenetic analyses are shown in the cladogram below:[7]

Sauropterygia

Placodontia

Hanosaurus

Eosauropterygia
Pachypleurosauroidea

Majiashanosaurus

Diandongosaurus

Dianmeisaurus

Dawazisaurus

Panzhousaurus

Keichousauridae

Dianopachysaurus

Keichousaurus

Pachypleurosauridae

Dactylosaurus

Anarosaurus

Odoiporosaurus

Serpianosaurus

Neusticosaurus

Prosantosaurus

Qianxisaurus

Wumengosaurus

Luopingosaurus

Honghesaurus

Eusauropterygia

Nothosauroidea

Pistosauroidea

References

  1. Jiang, Da-Yong; Rieppel, Olivier; Motani, Ryosuke; Hao, Wei-Cheng; Sun, Yuan-Lin; Schmitz, Lars; Sun, Zuo-Yu (2008). "A New Middle Triassic Eosauropterygian (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from Southwestern China". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 28 (4): 1055–1062. doi:10.1671/0272-4634-28.4.1055. S2CID 83909484.
  2. Cheng, Y. N.; Wu, X. C.; Sato, T.; Shan, H. Y. (2012). "A new eosauropterygian (Diapsida, Sauropterygia) from the Triassic of China". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (6): 1335. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.695983. S2CID 85253142.
  3. Da-Yong Jiang; Ryosuke Motani; Andrea Tintori; Olivier Rieppel; Guan-Bao Chen; Jian-Dong Huang; Rong Zhang; Zuo-Yu Sun & Cheng Ji (2014). "The Early Triassic eosauropterygian Majiashanosaurus discocoracoidis, gen. et sp. nov. (Reptilia, Sauropterygia), from Chaohu, Anhui Province, People's Republic of China". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (5): 1044–1052. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.846264. S2CID 129828376.
  4. Chen, Xiao-hong; Motani, Ryosuke; Long, Chen; Jiang, Da-Yong; Rieppel, Olivier (2014). "The enigmatic marine reptile Nanchangosaurus from the Lower Triassic of Hubei, China and the phylogenetic affinities of Hupehsuchia". PLOS ONE. 9 (7): e102361. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...9j2361C. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0102361. PMC 4094528. PMID 25014493.
  5. Paul, Gregory S. (2022). The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Sea Reptiles. Princeton University Press. p. 86. doi:10.1515/9780691241456. ISBN 9780691193809. S2CID 251553177.
  6. Qin, Yanjiao; He, Xiao; Luo, Yongming; Hu, Xinrui; Jiang, Liangbing; Deng, Xiaojie; Shi, Zhenhua; Ran, Weiyu (2021). "A New Species of Wumengosaurus from Panxian Fauna in Middle Triassic of Guizhou Province". Guizhou Geology (in Literary Chinese). 38 (4): 373–381. ISSN 1000-5943.
  7. Xu, G.-H.; Shang, Q.-H.; Wang, W.; Ren, Y.; Lei, H.; Liao, J.-L.; Zhao, L.-J.; Li, C. (2023). "A new long-snouted marine reptile from the Middle Triassic of China illuminates pachypleurosauroid evolution". Scientific Reports. 13 (1). 16. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-24930-y. ISSN 2045-2322.


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