Parvipelvia (
Latin
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for "little pelvis" - ''parvus'' meaning "little" and ''pelvis'' meaning "pelvis") is an
extinct clade of
euichthyosaur ichthyosaurs that existed from the
Late Triassic
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to the early
Late Cretaceous
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(middle
Norian to
Cenomanian) of
Asia
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,
Australia,
Europe
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,
North America and
South America
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. Named by Ryosuke Motani, in 1999, it contains the basal taxa like ''
Macgowania'' and ''
Hudsonelpidia''.
Maisch and Matzke (2000) found in their analysis seven synapomorphies that support Parvipelvia. They also found 10 synapomorphies that support the existence of post-Triassic clade of ichthyosaurs (all parvipelvians excluding ''Macgowania'' and ''Hudsonelpidia''), for which the name Neoichthyosauria was found to be available.
Parvipelvians were the only ichthyosaurs to survive the
Triassic-Jurassic extinction event.
Phylogeny
Parvipelvia is a
node-based taxon defined in 1999 as "the last common ancestor of ''Hudsonelpidia'', ''Macgowania'', ''
Ichthyosaurus
''Ichthyosaurus'' (derived from Greek ' () meaning 'fish' and ' () meaning 'lizard') is a genus of ichthyosaurs from the Early Jurassic (Hettangian - Pliensbachian), with possible Late Triassic record, from Europe ( Belgium, England, Germany, ...
'' and all of its descendants".
[ Maisch and Matzke (2000) also defined Neoichthyosauria which is a node-based taxon originally named by P. Martin Sander in 2000, as "the last common ancestor of '' Temnodontosaurus trigonodon'' and '' Ophthalmosaurus icenicus'' and all of its descendants".][ The ]cladogram
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s below follows Motani (1999) and Maisch and Matzke (2000).[
]
References
Ichthyosaurs
Late Triassic ichthyosaurs
Early Jurassic ichthyosaurs
Middle Jurassic ichthyosaurs
Late Jurassic ichthyosaurs
Early Cretaceous ichthyosaurs
Late Cretaceous ichthyosaurs
Norian first appearances
Turonian extinctions
Cretaceous reptiles of Asia
Cretaceous reptiles of Australia
Cretaceous reptiles of Europe
Early Cretaceous reptiles of North America
Late Cretaceous reptiles of North America
Cretaceous reptiles of South America
Jurassic reptiles of Asia
Jurassic reptiles of Europe
Early Jurassic reptiles of North America
Middle Jurassic reptiles of North America
Late Jurassic reptiles of North America
Jurassic reptiles of South America
Late Triassic reptiles of Asia
Late Triassic reptiles of Europe
Late Triassic ichthyosaurs of North America
Late Triassic reptiles of South America
Ichthyosaurs of Europe
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