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Leptosaurus pulchellus

Reptilia - Sphenodontidae

Taxonomy
Homoeosaurus pulchellus was named by Zittel (1887). Its type specimen is IPHG no. 1887 VI 1, a skeleton (complete skeleton), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Painten, near Kelheim, which is in a Kimmeridgian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Painten Formation of Germany.

It was recombined as Kallimodon pulchellus by Zittel (1887) and Cocude-Michel (1963); it was misspelled as Homeosaurus pulchellus by Grier (1914); it was recombined as Leptosaurus pulchellus by Fabre (1981) and Renesto and Viohl (1997).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1887Kallimodon pulchellus Zittel
1914Homeosaurus pulchellus Grier p. 89
1963Kallimodon pulchellus Cocude-Michel
1981Leptosaurus pulchellus Fabre
1997Leptosaurus pulchellus Renesto and Viohl

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
RankNameAuthor
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Eosuchia()
—Neodiapsida
—SauriaGauthier 1984
—Lepidosauromorpha(Benton 1983)
superorderLepidosauria()
familySphenodontidaeCope 1871
genusLeptosaurusFitzinger 1837
speciespulchellus(Zittel 1887)

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.

†Leptosaurus pulchellus Zittel 1887
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to the top of the Early/Lower Tithonian or 155.70000 to 145.00000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8France Leptosaurus pulchellus (24426)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8Germany (Bayern) Leptosaurus pulchellus (59175 type locality: 181424)
Early/Lower Tithonian150.8 - 145.0France (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) Leptosaurus pulchellus (35262)
Early/Lower Tithonian150.8 - 145.0Germany (Bayern) Leptosaurus pulchellus (181425)