Leptosaurus

Leptosaurus
Leptosaurus pulchellus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Order:
Rhynchocephalia
Suborder:
Sphenodontia
Genus:
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]

  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