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

Belongs to Xinminosaurus according to M. W. Maisch 2010

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

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: GMPKU-P-1071, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Near Yangjuan Village, which is in a Pelsonian marine horizon in the Guanling Formation of China.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Near Yangjuan Village

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