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Leptorrhamphus

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Leptorrhamphus
Temporal range: Pliocene
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Leptorrhamphus

Ambrosetti, 1890
Species
  • L. entrerrianus Ambrosetti, 1890 (type)

Leptorrhamphus is an extinct genus of gavialoid crocodilian that lived during the Pliocene epoch in what is now Argentina. The type species is L. entrerrianus, named in 1890.[1] It is now thought to be a nomen dubium.

References

  1. ^ Camp, C. L., Taylor, D. N. and Welles, S. P., eds. (1942) Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates 1934-1938. Geological Society of America Special Papers, Number 42.