Mixosauria
| Mixosauria Temporal range: 230–210Ma | |
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| Contectopalatus atavus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Subclass: | ?Diapsida |
| Superorder: | Ichthyopterygia |
| Order: | Ichthyosauria |
| Infraorder: | Mixosauria Motani, 1999 |
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Wimaniidae Maisch, 2010
Mixosauridae Baur, 1887
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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]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Michael W. Maisch (2010). "Phylogeny, systematics, and origin of the Ichthyosauria – the state of the art" (PDF). Palaeodiversity 3: 151–214.
- ↑ Motani, R. (1999). "Phylogeny of the Ichthyopterygia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19: 472–495.
- ↑ Michael W. Maisch and Andreas T. Matzke (2000). "The Ichthyosauria" (PDF). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde: Serie B 298: 159.
- ↑ 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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