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Leptosuchomorpha

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Leptosuchomorpha
Temporal range: Late Triassic
Skull of Smilosuchus gregorii in the American Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauromorpha
Clade: Archosauriformes
Order: †Phytosauria
Family: †Parasuchidae
Subfamily: †Mystriosuchinae
Clade: †Leptosuchomorpha
Stocker, 2010
Subgroups

See text.

Leptosuchomorpha is a clade of phytosaurs. It is a node-based taxon defined as the last common ancestor of Leptosuchus studeri and Pseudopalatus pristinus and all of its descendants.[1]

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram from Stocker (2012):[1]

Phytosauria 

References

  1. ^ a b Stocker, M. R. (2012). "A new phytosaur (Archosauriformes, Phytosauria) from the Lot's Wife beds (Sonsela Member) within the Chinle Formation (Upper Triassic) of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (3): 573–586. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.649815.
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