Sphenocondor
Appearance
Sphenocondor Temporal range: Middle Jurassic
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Rhynchocephalia |
Suborder: | Sphenodontia |
Genus: | †Sphenocondor Apesteguía et al., 2012 |
Type species | |
†Sphenocondor gracilis Apesteguía et al., 2012
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Sphenocondor is an extinct genus of sphenodontian reptile from the Middle Jurassic of Argentina.[1]
Phylogeny
A phylogenetic analysis performed by Apestiguia et al. (2012) resulted the following tree which shows the relationship of Sphenocondor to other rhynchocephalians:
References
- ^ Apesteguía, S. N.; Gómez, R. L. O.; Rougier, G. W. (2012). "A basal sphenodontian (Lepidosauria) from the Jurassic of Patagonia: New insights on the phylogeny and biogeography of Gondwanan rhynchocephalians". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 166 (2): 342. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00837.x.