Malawania

Malawania
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 132–125Ma
Restoration
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Ichthyosauria
Family: Ichthyosauridae
Genus: Malawania
Fischer et al., 2013
Type species
Malawania anachronus
Fischer et al., 2013

Malawania is an extinct genus of basal thunnosaur ichthyosaur known from the middle Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian or Barremian stage) of Iraq. Malawania was first named by Valentin Fischer, Robert M. Appleby, Darren Naish, Jeff Liston, Riding, J. B., Brindley, S. and Pascal Godefroit in 2013 and the type species is Malawania anachronus.[1]

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram modified from Fischer et. al., 2013.[1]



Mikadocephalus gracilirostris


 Parvipelvia 

Hudsonelpidia brevirostris




Macgowania janiceps


 Neoichthyosauria 


Temnodontosaurus




Leptonectes tenuirostris




Eurhinosaurus longirostris



Excalibosaurus costini







Suevoleviathan disinteger




Hauffiopteryx typicus


Thunnosauria 
 Ichthyosauridae 

Ichthyosaurus communis



Malawania anachronus



 Baracromia 

Stenopterygius quadriscissus




Chacaicosaurus cayi


 Ophthalmosauridae 

Arthropterygius chrisorum



 Ophthalmosaurinae 

Mollesaurus periallus




Ophthalmosaurus icenicus (type species)




Baptanodon natans ("O." natans)



Acamptonectes densus





 Platypterygiinae 


Brachypterygius extremus




Maiaspondylus lindoei




Aegirosaurus leptospondylus



Sveltonectes insolitus







"Platypterygius" hercynicus




Caypullisaurus bonapartei




Athabascasaurus bitumineus



"Platypterygius" australis

















References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Fischer, V.; Appleby, R. M.; Naish, D.; Liston, J.; Riding, J. B.; Brindley, S.; Godefroit, P. (2013). "A basal thunnosaurian from Iraq reveals disparate phylogenetic origins for Cretaceous ichthyosaurs". Biology Letters 9 (4): 20130021. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2013.0021.