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Leptopleuron lacertinum
Taxonomy
Leptopleuron lacertinum was named by Owen (1851). Its type specimen is NMS 1891.92.528, a skeleton (Part and counterpart sandstone slabs, preserving the natural mould of a partial skull and most of the postcrania of a small, juvenile individual), and it is a mold. It is the type species of Leptopleuron.
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1851 | Leptopleuron lacertinum Owen p. 284 |
1852 | Telerpeton elginense Mantell p. 100 figs. Pl. 4 |
1856 | Telerpeton elginense Roemer p. 785 |
1861 | Leptopleuron lacertinum Owen p. 284 |
1939 | Telerpeton elginense Huene p. 508 |
1946 | Leptopleuron lacertinum Colbert p. 258 |
2010 | Leptopleuron lacertinum Saila p. 3 |
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†Leptopleuron lacertinum Owen 1851
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Invalid names: Telerpeton elginense Mantell 1852 [objective synonym]
Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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L. K. Saila 2010 | Small procolophonid reptile, reaching 270 mm in snout-tail length in (sub)adults. Within Procolophonoidea, Leptopleuron is characterised by the following unique autapomorphies: vomerine dentition consisting of a tall and a short pair of fangs; frontals narrow anterior to the orbitotemporal openings; V-shaped groove on the jugal; anterior tip of the jugal in contact with the posterolateral extension of the nasal; minimal contact between the jugal and the postorbital; two
flattened, triangular spines of equal size on the quadratojugal; occipital condyle strongly tripartite; metotic foramen not surrounded by bone; ascending process of basisphenoid foreshortened, forming a robust flat ended expansion, and with lateral lamella; processus infrastapedialis columella aligned with long axis of footplate; loss of foramen for nerve IX on ventral ramus of the opisthotic; posterior opening of vidian canal behind the basipterygoid process; facial nerve foramen not enclosed by the prootic; transverse process of prootic rests on the dorsal surface of the opisthotic paraoccipital process; basal tubera of basioccipital covered ventrally by basal tubera of basiphenoid; broad medial ridge of pleurocentra of the dorsal vertebrae divided into three separate ridges by two deep grooves on each pleurocentrum; distinct three-fold depression pattern on the ventral side of ischium; fifth pedal digit has only two phalanges, with proximal phalanx equal in length to two proximal phalanges of digit four. |