Mixosauridae Baur 1887
Family Mixosauridae Baur, 1887 Type genus : Mixosaurus Baur, 1887. Included genera : Mixosaurus Baur, 1887 and Phalarodon Merriam, 1910. Diagnosis .—Modified from Liu et al. (2013). Mixosauridae can be differentiated from other ichthyosaurs by the following combination of characters: premaxilla poin...
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2022
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10988594 http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F787E94F28FFB7FFD1FAA26206CAB9 |
| Summary: | Family Mixosauridae Baur, 1887 Type genus : Mixosaurus Baur, 1887. Included genera : Mixosaurus Baur, 1887 and Phalarodon Merriam, 1910. Diagnosis .—Modified from Liu et al. (2013). Mixosauridae can be differentiated from other ichthyosaurs by the following combination of characters: premaxilla pointed posteriorly and lacking subnarial and supranarial processes; long sagittal crest which reaches the nasal; large anterior terrace of the upper temporal fenestra which reaches the nasal; pubis is significantly larger than the ischium; narrow and high caudal neural spines; large mid-caudal vertebral centra; heterodonty, posterior teeth more robust than anterior teeth; a pronounced notch present between the deltopectoral crest and the humeral head; distal carpal 1 larger than other carpals; three flattened middle metacarpals which are short and only have a slightly constricted shaft. Published as part of Roberts, Aubrey Jane, Engelschiøn, Victoria Sjøholt & Hurum, Jørn Harald, 2022, First three-dimensional skull of the Middle Triassic mixosaurid ichthyosaur Phalarodon fraasi from Svalbard, Norway, pp. 51-62 in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 67 (1) on page 54, DOI:10.4202/app.00915.2021, http://zenodo.org/record/10981077 |
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