Jump to content

Leptophractus

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by ShortDescBot (talk | contribs) at 22:58, 25 February 2021 (ShortDescBot adding short description "Extinct genus of amphibians"). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Leptophractus
Temporal range: Pennsylvanian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Clade: Tetrapodomorpha
Order: Embolomeri
Family: Eogyrinidae
Genus: Leptophractus
Cope, 1873
Type species
Leptophractus obsoletus
Cope, 1873

Leptophractus is an extinct genus of embolomere which is known from late Carboniferous coal mines near Linton, Ohio.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Cope, E.D. (1873). "On Some New Batrachia and Fishes from the Coal Measures of Linton, Ohio". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 25 (2): 340–343. JSTOR 4624343.
  2. ^ Clack, Jennifer A. (9 September 2011). "A Carboniferous embolomere tail with supraneural radials". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (5): 1150–1153. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.595467. JSTOR 41407668.