Mixosaurus was an ichthyosaur, a type of marine reptile. Ichthyosaurs were not dinosaurs, despite living during the same era. Mixosaurus lived during the Middle Triassic, with fossils found in Europe, Asia and North America.
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Mixosaurus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- F. Bassani. 1886. Sui fossili e sull'età degli schisti bituminosi triasici di Besano in Lombardia [On the fossils and the age of the Triassic bituminous schist of Besano in Lombardy]. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturale del Museo Civili de Storia Naturali 29:15-72
- F. X. Wu, M. M. Chang, and Y. L. Sun, G. H. Xu. 2013. A new saurichthyiform (Actinopterygii) with a crushing feeding mechanism from the Middle Triassic of Guizhou (China). PLoS One 8(12):e81010
- F. von Huene. 1916. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Ichthyosaurier im deutschen Muschelkalk. Palaeontographica
