Hueneosauria
The Hueneosauria are a group of Ichthyosauria, living during the Mesozoic.
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | †Ichthyosauria |
| Node: | †Hueneosauria |
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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
- Maisch, M.W. and Matzke, A.T., 2000, "The Ichthyosauria", Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Series B (Geologie und Paläontologie), 298: 1-159
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