Hueneosauria

The Hueneosauria are a group of Ichthyosauria, living during the Mesozoic.

Hueneosauria Temporal range: Early Triassic - Late Cretaceous
Partial skull of Cymbospondylus petrinus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	†Ichthyosauria
Node:	†Hueneosauria Maisch & Matzke, 2000
Subgroups
†Mixosauria †Longipinnati †Toretocnemidae †Cymbospondylidae †Merriamosauria

In 2000, Michael Werner Maisch and Andreas Matzke defined a node clade Hueneosauria as the group consisting of the last common ancestor of Mixosaurus cornalianus and Ophthalmosaurus icenicus; and all of its descendants. The clade is named after Friedrich von Huene, a German paleontologist who was a leading ichthyosaur expert in the early twentieth century.^[1]

The Hueneosauria contain the more derived ichthyosaurs, which have the morphology of a fish. The group originated in the early Triassic and became extinct during the Cretaceous.

References

1. Maisch, M. W.; Matzke, A. T. (2000). "The Ichthyosauria". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B. 298: 1–159.