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Leonardus cuspidatus

Mammalia - Meridiolestida

Taxonomy
Leonardus cuspidatus was named by Bonaparte (1990). Its type specimen is MACN-RN 172, a maxilla (partial left maxilla), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cerrito del Mamifero, Los Alamitos vertebrates, middle section, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian lacustrine - large lime mudstone in the Los Alamitos Formation of Argentina. It is the type species of Leonardus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1990Leonardus cuspidatus Bonaparte p. 73 fig. 10
2004Leonardus cuspidatus Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 380, 385, 387

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Dryolestoidea(Butler 1939)
orderMeridiolestida
genusLeonardus
speciescuspidatus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Leonardus cuspidatus Bonaparte 1990
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Diagnosis
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