Leptosaurus
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| Leptosaurus | |
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| Leptosaurus pulchellus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Rhynchocephalia |
| Suborder: | Sphenodontia |
| Genus: | †Leptosaurus Fitzinger, 1837 |
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Leptosaurus is a genus of sphenodont from the Late Jurassic of Bavaria, southern Germany.[1]
Kallimodon, at times synonymized with Leptosaurus, is actually a distinct genus more closely related to Sapheosaurus.[2][3]
