| Hueneosauria Temporal range: Early Triassic - Late Cretaceous | |
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| Partial skull of Cymbospondylus petrinus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | † Ichthyosauria |
| Node: | † Hueneosauria Maisch & Matzke, 2000 |
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The Hueneosauria are a group of Ichthyosauria, living during the Mesozoic.
In 2000, Michael Werner Maisch and Andreas Matzke defined a node clade Hueneosauria as the group consisting of the last common ancestor of Mixosaurus cornalianus and Ophthalmosaurus icenicus; and all of its descendants. The clade is named after Friedrich von Huene, a German paleontologist who was a leading ichthyosaur expert in the early twentieth century. [1]
The Hueneosauria contain the more derived ichthyosaurs, which have the morphology of a fish. The group originated in the early Triassic and became extinct during the Cretaceous.
