What is Mixosaurus?
{{italictitle}} {{Taxobox |name = ''Mixosaurus'' |fossil_range = [[Middle Triassic]] |image = Mixosaurus_BW.jpg |image_width = 250px |image_caption = ''Mixosaurus sp.'' |regnum = [[Animal]]ia |phylum = [[Chordata]] |classis = [[Sauropsida]] |ordo = [[Ichthyosaur]]ia |familia = [[Mixosauridae]] |genus = '''''Mixosaurus'''''}} '''''Mixosaurus''''' was a small, common and cosmopolitan [[Triassic]] [[ichthyosaur]]. It was only about a meter in length. Fossils are known from [[Alaska]], [[Canada]], [[China]], [[Timor]], [[Indonesia]], [[Italy]], [[Nevada]], [[New Zealand]], [[Spitsbergen]], and [[Svalbard]]. Thus it lived in the [[Tethys Sea]] but also ventured further afield. ''Mixosaurus'' seems to have been a [[transitional form]] between the more primitive eel-shaped icthyosaurs such as ''[[Cymbospondylus]]'' and the more advanced Shatsasaurs and Euichthyosaurs (the latter including the familiar dolphin- or porpoise-shaped icthyosaurs). [[Category:Ichthyosaurs]]