Mixosauridae
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Mixosauridae was an early group of ichthyosaurs, living between 247.2 and 235 million years ago, during the Triassic period. Fossils of mixosaurs have been found all over the world: China, Timor, Indonesia, Italy, Germany, Spitsbergen, Switzerland, Svalbard, Canada, Alaska, and Nevada.
Skeleton of Mixosaurus panxianensis, sometimes assigned to its own genus Barracudasauroides
Skeleton of Ichthyosaurus. Historically, mixosaurids were frequently considered ancestral to Ichthyosaurus
Skeleton of Cymbospondylus. Exactly how mixosaurids and Cymbospondylus are related to other ichthyosaurs is uncertain
Skull and front part of the skeleton of Mixosaurus cornalianus
Ichthyosauria
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Ichthyosauria is an order of large extinct marine reptiles sometimes referred to as "ichthyosaurs", although the term is also used for wider clades in which the order resides.
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An ichthyosaur and plesiosaur by Édouard Riou, 1863. This old representation of a plesiosaur lifting its head is not accurate and physically impossible.
The skull of specimen NHMUK PV R1158 found by Joseph Anning in 1811
The torso of specimen NHMUK PV R1158 found by Mary Anning in 1812