| Macgowania Temporal range: Late Triassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | †Ichthyosauria |
| Node: | †Parvipelvia |
| Family: | †Macgowaniidae McGowan & Motani, 2003 |
| Genus: | †Macgowania Motani, 1999 |
| Species: | †M. janiceps
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| Binomial name | |
| †Macgowania janiceps (McGowan, 1996 [originally Ichthyosaurus])
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Macgowania is an extinct genus of parvipelvian ichthyosaur known from British Columbia of Canada.[1][2] It was a small ichthyosaur around 3 metres (9.8 ft) in total body length.[3]
- ^ Chris McGowan (1996). "A new and typically Jurassic ichthyosaur from the Upper Triassic of British Columbia". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 33 (1): 24–32. Bibcode:1996CaJES..33...24M. doi:10.1139/e96-003.
- ^ Ryosuke Motani (1999). "Phylogeny of the Ichthyopterygia" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 19 (3): 472–495. Bibcode:1999JVPal..19..473M. doi:10.1080/02724634.1999.10011160. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2011-10-19.
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