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Microleter mckinzieorum
Taxonomy
Microleter mckinzieorum was named by Tsuji et al. (2010). Its type specimen is OMNH 73106, a skull (incl. a few anterior vertebrae), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Richards Spur, which is in an Artinskian fissure fill claystone/conglomerate in Oklahoma. It is the type species of Microleter.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 2010 | Microleter mckinzieorum Tsuji et al. p. 246 fig. 1 |
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†Microleter mckinzieorum Tsuji et al. 2010
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| L. A. Tsuji et al. 2010 | Small parareptile characterized by the presence of an elongate, slender maxilla that carries at least 32 narrow, slightly recurved teeth, more than any known parareptile other than Lanthanosuchus; maxilla bears a distinct anterodorsal expansion but still allows for a lacrimal-narial contact, a feature shared with other basal parareptiles such as millerettids and convergently with pareiasaurs and bolosaurids; distinct craniodermal sculpturing consisting of small pinhead sized pits and thin radiating furrows; very short postfrontal, extending posteriorly barely farther than the frontal itself; prefrontal with wide medial flange; slit-like ventral temporal emargination involving the jugal, quadratojugal, postorbital and squamosal that is not closed at the ventral edge, differing from the ventral temporal emarginations of procolophonoids and Nyctiphruretus by the contribution of the postorbital; pterygoid flange anteriorly directed. |