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Ichthyosaur
Kingdom: Animalia
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Triassic
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Middle
International Age: Anisian (Pelsonian)
Guanling Formation
Acquired by: Purchase/Trade
Length: 90 cm
Luoping County
Yunnan Province
China
Taxonomy from Fossilworks.org
Originally described as Mixosaurus panxianensis, Maisch 2010, p. 162 "proposed the name Barracudasauroides n. gen., with the type species Barracudasauroides panxianensis (JIANG et al. 2006) n. comb.”
Diagnosis from Maisch 2010, p. 161: "Small mixosaurids, skull length below 250 mm, crista sagittalis low, 15 or less premaxillary teeth with elongate, conical and pointed crowns, maxillary teeth stronger than premaxillary teeth, anterior maxillary teeth robust, conical and blunt, posterior maxillary teeth slightly elongated mesiodistally, jugal with short processus posteroventralis, no external contact between jugal and quadratojugal, postorbital and possibly squamosal reach incisura postjugalis, postorbital seperates postfrontal and supratemporal, radius with two anterior notches (modified from JIANG et al. 2005, 2006).”
References:
D.-Y. Jiang, L. Schmitz, and W.-C. Hao, Y.-L. sun. 2006. A new mixosaurid ichthyosaur from the Middle Triassic of China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(1):60-69.
M. W. Maisch. 2010. Phylogeny, systematics, and origin of the Ichthyosauria - the state of the art. Palaeodiversity 3:151-214.
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