Leptophractus

Extinct genus of tetrapodomorphs

Leptophractus
Temporal range: Pennsylvanian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Clade: Tetrapodomorpha
Order: Embolomeri
Family: Eogyrinidae
Genus: Leptophractus
Cope, 1873
Type species
Leptophractus obsoletus
Cope, 1873

Leptophractus is an extinct genus of embolomere described from an Upper Carboniferous coal mine at Linton, Ohio.[1][2] It probably represents a young growth interval, and is therefore a synonym, of Anthracosaurus lancifer, which was described much earlier from the same deposit at Linton.[3]

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. JSTOR 4624343.
  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. JSTOR 41407668.
  3. ^ Babcock, L. E. (2024). "Some vertebrate types (Chondrichthyes, Actinopterygii, Sarcopterygii, and Tetrapoda) from two Paleozoic Lagerstätten of Ohio, U.S.A." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 44: 1–12. doi:10.1080/02724634.2024.2308621.
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