Biology:Leptophractus

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Short description: Extinct genus of amphibians

Leptophractus
Temporal range: Pennsylvanian
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Embolomeri
Family: Eogyrinidae
Genus: Leptophractus
Cope, 1873
Type species
Leptophractus obsoletus
Cope, 1873

Leptophractus is an extinct genus of embolomere which is known from late Carboniferous coal mines near Linton, Ohio.[1][2]

References

  1. Cope, E.D. (1873). "On Some New Batrachia and Fishes from the Coal Measures of Linton, Ohio". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 25 (2): 340–343. 
  2. Clack, Jennifer A. (9 September 2011). "A Carboniferous embolomere tail with supraneural radials". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31 (5): 1150–1153. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.595467. 

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