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]
Barracudasauroides Temporal range: Middle Triassic, | |
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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 |
Binomial name | |
†Barracudasauroides panxianensis Jiang, Schmitz, Hao & Sun, 2006 | |
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