Mixosaurus

Mixosaurus is an  extinct  genus of  ichthyosaur. Fossils of  Mixosaurus have been found all over the world -  China,  Timor,  Indonesia,  Italy,  Spitsbergen,  Svalbard,  Canada, Alaska, and  Nevada and it was the most common genus of Triassic  Ichthyosaur. [1] <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;"> It was named in 1887 by George H. Baur. The name means "Mixed Lizard", and was chosen because it appears to have been a  transitional form<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;"> between the  eel<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;">-shaped Ichthyosaurs such as  Cymbospondylus<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;"> and the later  dolphin<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;">-shaped ichthyosaurs, such as  Ichthyosaurus<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;">. Baur named  Mixosaurus<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;"> as a new genus because its forefin was sufficiently different from that of Ichthyosaurus. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Motani1999_1-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">[1]

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