Kwangsisaurus
Kwangsisaurus was a marine reptile that swam in the warm seas of China during the Middle Triassic. It was a type of sauropterygian, a group that includes the famous plesiosaurs. This reptile had a long body and paddle-like limbs for swimming.11
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Datos curiosos
Kwangsisaurus was named by Chinese paleontologist Yang Zhongjian (also known as C. C. Young) in 1959.1
The only known fossil of Kwangsisaurus is a partial skeleton found in Wuming County, Guangxi, China.2
Kwangsisaurus lived during the Olenekian to Anisian stages of the Triassic, about 250 to 244 million years ago.12
This reptile was a pistosaurid, a group of early sauropterygians that were ancestors of the later plesiosaurs.1
Kwangsisaurus had dorsal vertebrae with long, expanded transverse processes, which helped support its body.1
Its coracoid bone was broad and plate-like, with a rounded inner edge and a bell-shaped outer edge.1
The humerus (upper arm bone) of Kwangsisaurus was curved, and it lacked an entepicondylar foramen, a hole found in some other reptiles.1

Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Kwangsisaurus
- Bautizado por
- Young 19593
- Grupo
- Réptiles mariños
- Familia / clado
- Pistosauroidea3
- Clasificación
- Sauropterygia3
- Idade das rochas
- de 251 a 247 millóns de anos ()3
- Formacións rochosas
- Beisi3
- Países
- China3
- Rexistros fósiles
- 1 na Paleobiology Database3
- Descubrimento
- Kwangsisaurus was named by Chinese paleontologist Yang Zhongjian (C. C. Young) in 1959 based on a partial skeleton found in Wuming County, Guangxi, China.12
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists are unsure about the exact size of Kwangsisaurus because only a partial skeleton has been found.1
De onde veñen os datos
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- 论广西武鸣三叠纪海生爬行动物东方广西龙(鳍龙类)的时代 (vertpala.ac.cn)
- Kwangsisaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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