Genus
Valid Extinct

Barracudasauroides

Maisch 2010

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. It was named by Michael W. Maisch in 2010, and the type species is Barracudasauroides panxianensis.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
8
Group
Ichtyosaures
Carnivore nektonic Marine
Barracudasauroides
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Classification
Ichthyosauria Unranked clade
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Hueneosauria Unranked clade
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Mixosauridae Family
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Barracudasauroides Genus
Fossil sites 8 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
8
Temporal distribution
Anisian (247–241.464 Ma)
8
Species (1)
Barracudasauroides panxianensis 247 Ma
Images 5
Bibliography
Original description
M. W. Maisch. 2010. Phylogeny, systematics, and origin of the Ichthyosauria - the state of the art. Palaeodiversity 3:151-214
Bibliography (1)
R. Motani, D.-Y. Jiang, and A. Tintori, Y.-L. Sun, W.-C. Hao, A. Boyd, S. Hinic-Frlog, L. Schmitz, J.-Y. Shin, Z.-Y. Sun. 2008. Horizons and assemblages of Middle Triassic marine reptiles from Panxian. Guizhou, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(3):900-903 DOI ↗