Reptilia - Ichthyosauria - Grippiidae

Full reference: X. Chen, P. M. Sander, L. Cheng and X. Wang. 2013. A new Triassic primitive ichthyosaur from Yuanan, South China. Acta Geologica Sinica 87(3):672-677

Belongs to Chaohusaurus according to X. Chen et al. 2013

See also Ji et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Chaohusaurus brevifemoralis, Chaohusaurus chaoxianensis, Chaohusaurus geishanensis, Chensaurus chaoxianensis

Type specimen: WHGMR V26001. Its type locality is Xunjian, Nanzhang, which is in a Triassic marine horizon in China.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Xunjian, Nanzhang

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