Malawania
Malawania Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 132–125Ma | |
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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]
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References
- ↑ 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.
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