Skeletal reconstruction of Mixosaurus cornalianus showing soft tissue outline
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Order:
†Ichthyosauria
Infraorder:
†Mixosauria
Family:
†Mixosauridae Baur, 1887
Genera
Barracudasauroides? Maisch, 2010
Contectopalatus? Maisch and Matzke, 1998
Mixosaurus Baur, 1887
Phalarodon Merriam, 1910
Synonyms
Mixosauria[1] Motani, 1999
Mixosauridae was an early group of ichthyosaurs, living between 247.2 and 235 million years ago, during the Triassic period.[2][1][3] Fossils of mixosaurs have been found all over the world: China, Timor, Indonesia, Italy, Germany, Spitsbergen, Switzerland, Svalbard, Canada, Alaska, and Nevada.
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Mixosauridae was an early group of ichthyosaurs, living between 247.2 and 235 million years ago, during the Triassic period. Fossils of mixosaurs have...
first specimen of the Middle Triassic Phalarodon atavus (Ichthyosauria: Mixosauridae) from South China, showing postcranial anatomy and peri-Tethyan distribution"...
mixosaurid ichthyosaurs has been a controversial topic. Most recently, Mixosauridae has been separated into Mixosaurinae and the sister group Phalarondontinae...
L.; Sander, P. M.; Storrs, G. W.; Rieppel, O. (February 2004). "New Mixosauridae (Ichthyosauria) from the Middle Triassic of the Augusta Mountains (Nevada...
palaeohistology of the basal ichthyosaur Mixosaurus Baur, 1887 (Ichthyopterygia, Mixosauridae) from the Middle Triassic: Palaeobiological implications". Comptes Rendus...
Merriamosauria clade, being seen as more derived than Cymbospondylus and the Mixosauridae. Thalattoarchon was recovered either in an unresolved polytomy with Besanosaurus...
of Pleurosaurus from the Late Jurassic in Franconia. Mixosauridae von Timor, 1931 – Mixosauridae of Timor. Zur Osteologie des Kopfes von Cynognathus,...
Von F. Broili (1916). "Einige Bemerkungen über die Mixosauridae" [Some remarks about the Mixosauridae]. Anatomischer Anzeiger (in German). 49: 474–494....
their phylogenetic analysis and finding it to be the sister taxon of Mixosauridae.: 1, 62, 95 In a 2003 book with Christopher McGowan, Motani considered...
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