Named By: | Maisch in 2010 |
Time Period: | Middle Triassic, Anisian |
Location: | China, Guizhou Province - Guanling Formation |
Size: | Uncertain, but possibly around 1 meter long |
Diet: | Piscivore |
Fossil(s): | Partial skeleton |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Ichthyosauria | Mixosauria | Mixosauridae | |
Also known as: | | Mixosaurus panxianensis | |
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.