Biology:Leptosaurus

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Short description: Genus of reptiles


Leptosaurus
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Reptilia
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Leptosaurus

Fitzinger, 1837
Species
  • L. neptunius (Goldfuss, 1831) (type)

Leptosaurus is a genus of sphenodont from the Late Jurassic of Bavaria, southern Germany.[1]

Kallimodon, at times synonymized with Leptosaurus, is actually a distinct genus more closely related to Sapheosaurus.[2][3]


References

  1. Goldfuss A. (1831): Beiträge zur Kenntniss verschiedener Reptilien der Vorwelt.– Nova Acta Physico-Medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum 15: 61–128.
  2. 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.
  3. 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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