Austronaga

Austronaga
Temporal range: Middle Triassic
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauromorpha
Clade: Tanysauria
Family: Trachelosauridae
Genus: Austronaga
Species:
A. minuta
Binomial name
Austronaga minuta
Wang, Lei & Li, 2023

Austronaga (meaning "southern naga") is an extinct genus of dinocephalosaurid archosauromorph reptile from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) Guanling Formation of China. The genus contains a single species, A. minuta, known from a partial skull, as well as vertebrae from the tail and neck. Austronaga was significantly smaller than the coeval Dinocephalosaurus.