Chaohusaurus

Chaohusaurus
Temporal range:
Early Triassic,
Specimen AGM CHS-5
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: †Ichthyopterygia
Genus: †Chaohusaurus
Young & Dong, 1972
Type species
†Chaohusaurus geishanensis
Young & Dong, 1972
Species
  • †C. geishanensis Young & Dong, 1972
  • †C. chaoxianensis Chen, 1985
  • †C. zhangjiawanensis Chen et al., 2013
  • †C. brevifemoralis Huang et al., 2019

Chaohusaurus is an extinct genus of basal ichthyosauriform from the Early Triassic of Chaohu and Yuan'an, China.