Barracudasauroides is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of mixosaurid ichthyosaur

Ichthyosaur

Ichthyosaurs were giant marine reptiles that resembled fish and dolphins...

 which lived during the Middle Triassic

Middle Triassic

In the geologic timescale, the Middle Triassic is the second of three epochs of the Triassic period or the middle of three series in which the Triassic system is divided. It spans the time between 245 ± 1.5 Ma and 228 ± 2 Ma...

. Fossils of this genus have been found in Guizhou Province, China

China

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. It is known from GMPKU-P-1033, a partial skeleton

Skeleton

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 recovered from the Upper Member of the Guanling Formation

Guanling Formation

The Guanling Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Plesiosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from its strata....

 of Yangjuan village, Xinmin

Xinmin

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 area; this rock unit dates to the Pelsonian substage of the Anisian

Anisian

In the geologic timescale, the Anisian is the lower stage or earliest age of the Middle Triassic series or epoch and lasted from 245 million years ago until 237 million years ago, approximately...

 stage. It was named by Michael W. Maisch in 2010

2010 in paleontology

-Anomalocaridids:-Newly named crustaceans:-Newly named insects:* A new family, Cascopleciidae, is published by Poinar Jr.* A new family of ceraphronoid Hymenopters, Radiophronidae, is published by Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn, and Delclòs....

, and the type species

Type species

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is Barracudasauroides panxianensis.