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Leptopleuroninae

Extinct subfamily of reptiles From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Leptopleuroninae is an extinct subfamily of procolophonid reptiles.[2] It is defined as all taxa closer to Leptopleuron lacertinum than to Procolophon trigoniceps.[2] The oldest member of Leptopleuroninae is Phonodus dutoitorum from the Induan age of the Early Triassic.[3] It is the only procolophonid group that survived into the Late Triassic.[4]

Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Family:†Procolophonidae
Subfamily:†Leptopleuroninae
Ivakhnenko, 1979
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Leptopleuroninae
Temporal range: Early — Late Triassic
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Family: †Procolophonidae
Subfamily: †Leptopleuroninae
Ivakhnenko, 1979
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A cladogram showing relationships within Procolophonidae after Modesto et al., 2010:[3]

Procolophonidae

Below are two cladograms that follow phylogenetic analyses by Butler et al. (2023):[4]

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