Reptilia - Ichthyosauria - Omphalosauridae

Full reference: D. Jiang, R. Motani, W. Hao, L. Schmitz, O. Rieppel, Y. Sun, and Z. Sun. 2008. New primitive ichthyosaurian (Reptilia, Diapsida) from the Middle Triassic of Panxian, Guizhou, southwestern China and its position in the Triassic biotic recovery. Progress in Natural Science 18:1315-1319

Parent taxon: Omphalosauridae according to M. W. Maisch 2010

See also Ji et al. 2016 and Jiang et al. 2008

Sister taxa: Chaosaurus, Omphalosaurus, Tholodus

Subtaxa: Xinminosaurus catactes

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Near Yangjuan Village (Triassic of China)

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