{{Short description|Extinct group of ichthyosaurs}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = Early Triassic - Late Cretaceous | image = Cymbospondylus_petrinus_skull_UCMP_9913.jpg | image_caption = Partial skull of ''Cymbospondylus petrinus'' | taxon =Hueneosauria | authority =Maisch & Matzke, 2000 | subdivision_ranks = Subgroups | subdivision = * {{extinct}}'''Mixosauridae''' * {{extinct}}'''Longipinnati''' ** {{extinct}}Cymbospondylidae ** {{extinct}}Toretocnemidae ** {{extinct}}'''Merriamosauria''' }}

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.<ref name="MM00">{{cite journal|last1=Maisch|first1=M. W.|last2=Matzke|first2=A. T.|year=2000|title=The Ichthyosauria|journal=Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B|volume=298|pages=1–159|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/278993#page/350/mode/2up}}</ref>

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.

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Category:Ichthyosauria Category:Triassic ichthyosaurs Category:Cretaceous ichthyosaurs Category:Early Triassic first appearances Category:Cretaceous extinctions

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