Barracudasauroides

Barracudasauroides Temporal range: Middle Triassic, Anisian PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Barracudasauroides panxianensis MHNT
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Order:	Ichthyosauria
(unranked):	Mixosauria
Family:	Mixosauridae
Genus:	Barracudasauroides Maisch, 2010
Species
B. panxianensis (Jiang, Schmitz, Hao & Sun, 2006) [originally Mixosaurus] (type)

Barracudasauroides is a genus of mixosaurid ichthyosaur which lived during the Middle Triassic. Fossils of this genus have been found in Guizhou Province, China. It is known from GMPKU-P-1033, a partial skeleton recovered from the Upper Member of the Guanling Formation of Yangjuan village, Xinmin area; this rock unit dates to the Pelsonian substage of the Anisian stage. It was named by Michael W. Maisch in 2010, and the type species is Barracudasauroides panxianensis.