Leontosaurus
Extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsids from South Africa
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Leontosaurus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsids from the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone, Balfour Formation of South Africa. It contains the single species L. vanderhorsti.[1]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | †Gorgonopsia |
| Family: | †Gorgonopsidae |
| Tribe: | †Rubidgeini |
| Genus: | †Leontosaurus |
| Type species | |
| Leontosaurus vanderhorsti Broom & George 1950 | |
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