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Leptoropha

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Leptoropha
Temporal range: Middle Permian, Guadalupian
Restoration of Leptoropha talonorophus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Seymouriamorpha
Family: Kotlassiidae
Subfamily: Leptorophinae
Genus: Leptoropha
Chudinov, 1955
Type species
Leptoropha novojilovi
Chudinov, 1955
Species
  • L. novojilovi Chudinov, 1955 (type)
  • L. talonorophus (Chudinov, 1955 [originally Rhipaeosaurus]) Reisz & Laurin, 2001
Synonyms

Leptoropha is an extinct genus of aquatic seymouriamorph known from the Middle Permian of Russia.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Tsuji, Linda A.; Müller, Johannes; Reisz, Robert R. (1 January 2012). "Anatomy of Emeroleter levis and the phylogeny of the nycteroleter parareptiles". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (1): 45–67. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.626004.