Malawania

Malawania Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 132–125 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Restoration
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	†Ichthyosauria
Family:	†Ichthyosauridae
Genus:	†Malawania Fischer et al., 2013
Type species
†Malawania anachronus Fischer et al., 2013

Malawania is an extinct genus of basal thunnosaur ichthyosaur known from the middle Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian or Barremian stage) of Iraq. Malawania was first named by Valentin Fischer, Robert M. Appleby, Darren Naish, Jeff Liston, Riding, J. B., Brindley, S. and Pascal Godefroit in 2013 and the type species is Malawania anachronus.^[1]

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram modified from Fischer et. al., 2013.^[1]

Mikadocephalus gracilirostris  Parvipelvia  Hudsonelpidia brevirostris Macgowania janiceps  Neoichthyosauria  Temnodontosaurus Leptonectes tenuirostris Eurhinosaurus longirostris Excalibosaurus costini Suevoleviathan disinteger Hauffiopteryx typicus Thunnosauria   Ichthyosauridae  Ichthyosaurus communis Malawania anachronus  Baracromia  Stenopterygius quadriscissus Chacaicosaurus cayi  Ophthalmosauridae  Arthropterygius chrisorum  Ophthalmosaurinae  Mollesaurus periallus Ophthalmosaurus icenicus (type species) Baptanodon natans ("O." natans) Acamptonectes densus  Platypterygiinae  Brachypterygius extremus Maiaspondylus lindoei Aegirosaurus leptospondylus Sveltonectes insolitus "Platypterygius" hercynicus Caypullisaurus bonapartei Athabascasaurus bitumineus "Platypterygius" australis

See also

• List of ichthyosaurs
• Timeline of ichthyosaur research

References

1. Fischer, V.; Appleby, R. M.; Naish, D.; Liston, J.; Riding, J. B.; Brindley, S.; Godefroit, P. (2013). "A basal thunnosaurian from Iraq reveals disparate phylogenetic origins for Cretaceous ichthyosaurs". Biology Letters. 9 (4): 20130021. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2013.0021.