Leptosaurus
| Leptosaurus Temporal range: Late Jurassic, | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Rhynchocephalia |
| Suborder: | Sphenodontia |
| Genus: | †Leptosaurus Fitzinger, 1837 |
| Species: | †L. neptunius |
| Binomial name | |
| †Leptosaurus neptunius (Goldfuss, 1831) | |
Leptosaurus is a genus of sphenodontian from the Late Jurassic of Bavaria, southern Germany.
Kallimodon, at times synonymized with Leptosaurus, is actually a distinct genus more closely related to Sapheosaurus.
References
- ↑ Goldfuss A. (1831): Beiträge zur Kenntniss verschiedener Reptilien der Vorwelt.– Nova Acta Physico-Medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum 15: 61–128.
- ↑ Rauhut O. W. M., Heyng A. M., López-Arbarello A. & Hecker A. (2012): A new rhynchocephalian from the Late Jurassic of Germany with a dentition that is unique amongst tetrapods. PLoS ONE 7: e46839.
- ↑ Oliver W. M. Rauhut & Adriana López-Arbarello (2015) Zur Taxonomie der Brückenechse aus dem oberen Jura von Schamhaupten. [On the taxonomy of rhynchocephalians from the Late Jurassic of Schamhaupten] Archaeopteryx 33: 1-11 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301517359_Zur_Taxonomie_der_Bruckenechse_aus_dem_oberen_Jura_von_Schamhaupten_On_the_taxonomy_of_the_rhynchocephalian_from_the_Late_Jurassic_of_Schamhaupten
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