Mixosauria

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Mixosauria
Temporal range: 230–210Ma
Contectopalatus atavus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Subclass: ?Diapsida
Superorder: Ichthyopterygia
Order: Ichthyosauria
Infraorder: Mixosauria
Motani, 1999
Genera

Wimaniidae Maisch, 2010

Mixosauridae Baur, 1887

The Mixosauria were an early group of ichthyosaurs, living between 250 and 230 million years ago, during the Triassic period.[1] Fossils of mixosaurs have been found all over the world: China, Timor, Indonesia, Italy, Germany, Spitsbergen, Switzerland, Svalbard, Canada, Alaska, and Nevada.

Cladogram based on Motani (1999),[2] Maisch and Matzke (2000),[3] and Jiang, Schmitz, Hao & Sun (2006),[4] with clade and generic names following Maisch (2010):[1]

Mixosauria
Wimaniidae

Wimanius


Mixosauridae
Mixosaurinae

Barracudasauroides




Mixosaurus cornalianus



Mixosaurus kuhnschnyderi




Phalarodontinae

Contectopalatus




Phalarodon callawayi



Phalarodon fraasi






References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Michael W. Maisch (2010). "Phylogeny, systematics, and origin of the Ichthyosauria – the state of the art". Palaeodiversity 3: 151–214. 
  2. Motani, R. (1999). "Phylogeny of the Ichthyopterygia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19: 472–495. 
  3. Michael W. Maisch and Andreas T. Matzke (2000). "The Ichthyosauria". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde: Serie B 298: 159. 
  4. Da-Yong Jiang, Lars Schmitz, Wei-Cheng Hao, and Yuan-Lin Sun (2006). "A new mixosaurid Ichthyosaur from the Middle Triassic of China". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26 (1): 60–69. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[60:ANMIFT]2.0.CO;2. 
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