Biology:Barracudasauroides
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Short description: Extinct genus of reptiles
Barracudasauroides | |
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B. panxianensis (MHNT) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | †Ichthyosauria |
Family: | †Mixosauridae |
Genus: | †Barracudasauroides Maisch, 2010 |
Species: | †B. panxianensis
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Binomial name | |
†Barracudasauroides panxianensis Jiang, Schmitz, Hao & Sun, 2006
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Synonyms | |
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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]
See also
- List of ichthyosaurs
- Timeline of ichthyosaur research
References
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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:ANMIFT2.0.CO;2]. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26%5B60%3AANMIFT%5D2.0.CO%3B2.
- ↑ Michael W. Maisch (2010). "Phylogeny, systematics, and origin of the Ichthyosauria – the state of the art". Palaeodiversity 3: 151–214. http://www.palaeodiversity.org/pdf/03/Palaeodiversity_Bd3_Maisch.pdf.
Wikidata ☰ Q4863196 entry
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