Leontosaurus

Leontosaurus
Temporal range: Late Permian
Holotype skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Order: Therapsida
Family: Gorgonopsidae
Tribe: Rubidgeini
Genus: Leontosaurus
Type species
Leontosaurus vanderhorsti
Broom & George, 1950
Synonyms
  • Rubidgea platyrhina Brink & Kitching, 1953
  • Sycosaurus vanderhorsti Sigogneau, 1970
Referred skull, the holotype of Rubidgea platyrhina
Referred skull

Leontosaurus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid. It contains the single species L. vanderhorsti.[1]

References

  1. Kammerer, Christian F. (2016). "Systematics of the Rubidgeinae (Therapsida: Gorgonopsia)". PeerJ. 4: e1608. doi:10.7717/peerj.1608.

See also

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