Barracudasauroides
Extinct genus of reptiles
Barracudasauroides Temporal range: Middle Triassic, Anisian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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B. panxianensis (MHNT) | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | †Ichthyosauria |
Family: | †Mixosauridae |
Genus: | †Barracudasauroides Maisch, 2010 |
Species: | †B. panxianensis |
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†Barracudasauroides panxianensis Jiang, Schmitz, Hao & Sun, 2006 | |
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Barracudasauroides is a genus of mixosaurid ichthyosaur which lived during the Middle Triassic. Fossils of this genus have been found in Guizhou Province, China. It is known from GMPKU-P-1033, a partial skeleton recovered from the Upper Member of the Guanling Formation of Yangjuan village, Xinmin area; this rock unit dates to the Pelsonian substage of the Anisian stage.[1] It was named by Michael W. Maisch in 2010, and the type species is Barracudasauroides panxianensis.[2]
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- ^ Da-Yong Jiang; Lars Schmitz; Wei-Cheng Hao & 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. S2CID 55171917.
- ^ Michael W. Maisch (2010). "Phylogeny, systematics, and origin of the Ichthyosauria – the state of the art" (PDF). Palaeodiversity. 3: 151–214.
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