-
markedly or the
mixosaurids were more
specialized than
their supposed descendants. Consequently, he
named a new
monotypic order for the
mixosaurids, Mixosauroidea...
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observed in the species,
implying that
Phalarodon atavus, and
other mixosaurids, were
highly specialized for
particularly dietary niches. Conclusions...
- P.
fraasi and P. callawayi, and
Contectopalatus contains C. atavus.
Mixosaurids are
characterised by a
relatively short and wide
humerus and Phalarodon...
-
Barracudasauroides is a
genus of
mixosaurid ichthyosaur which lived during the
Middle Tri****ic.
Fossils of this
genus have been
found in
Guizhou Province...
- Schmitz, Lars; Hao, Wei-Cheng; Sun, Yuan-Lin (March 30, 2006). "A new
mixosaurid ichthyosaur from the
Middle Tri****ic of China".
Journal of Vertebrate...
- PMID 38630678. Fang, Y.-W.; Wolniewicz, A. S.; Liu, J. (2024). "A new
species of
mixosaurid ichthyosaur from the
Middle Tri****ic of Luxi County,
Yunnan Province,...
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Besanosaurus were more
likely to show
skeletal injuries than the
smaller mixosaurids, but
showed less
frequent injuries than Cymbospondylus,
thought to have...
-
recovered cymbospondylids as
members of
Hueneosauria and more
derived than
mixosaurids, but Ji and
colleagues found cymbospondylids to be
outside of Hueneosauria...
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sometimes being recovered as more and
sometimes as less
derived than
mixosaurids.
However it is
agreed upon that
Cymbospondylus is a
rather basal member...
- confidence. They
noted that it did not seem to
closely resemble either mixosaurids or shastasaurids,
though they
considered it to be more
closely related...
