Malawania
Name: Malawania.
Phonetic: Mah-lah-wan-e-ah.
Named By: V. Fischer, R. M. Appleby, D.
Naish, J. Liston, J. B. Riding, S. Brindley &
P. Godefroit - 2013.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Ichthyosauria, Ichthyosauridae.
Species: M. anachronus
(type).
Diet: Carnivore/Piscivore.
Size: Uncertain.
Known locations: Iraq, Kurdistan.
Time period: Hauterivian/Barremian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial post cranial skeletal
remains with fragments of the skull and sclerotic rings.
Malawania is a genus of ichthyosaur that lived around the Middle East during the early Cretaceous.
Further reading
- A basal thunnosaurian from Iraq reveals disparate phylogenetic
origins for Cretaceous ichthyosaurs. - Biology Letters
98(4). - V. Fischer, R. M. Appleby, D. Naish,
J. Liston, J. B. Riding, S. Brindley & P.
Godefroit - 2013.
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