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Malawania

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
†Ichthyosauridae

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Reptilia

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Ichthyosaur

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Ichthyosaur, Acamptonectes, Thunnosauria, Chacaicosaurus, Hauffiopteryx

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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.

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Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram modified from Fischer et. al., 2013.

References

Malawania Wikipedia