''Wimanius'' is a mixosaurian ichthyosaur, and the only genus in the family Wimaniidae. It existed during the

Triassic The Triassic ( ) is a geologic period and system (stratigraphy), system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Year#Abbreviations yr and ya, Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.36 ...

Period in what is now Switzerland. It was described by Maisch and Matzke in 1998 based on fossils found in the Monte San Giorgio Formation, and the

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specime ...

is ''Wimanius odontopalatus''. It was a small ichthyosaur, measuring long and weighing .

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Triassic ichthyosaurs Triassic reptiles of Europe Fossils of Switzerland Fossil taxa described in 1998 Ichthyosauromorph genera {{triassic-reptile-stub

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