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BARRACUDASAUROIDES
(bar-rah-ku-dah-sore-oyd-eez)
meaning: "Barracuda lizard like"
Barracudasauroides
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 |
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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.

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