Leptosuchomorpha

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Leptosuchomorpha
Temporal range: Late Triassic 237–201.4  Ma
Leptosuchus gregorii skull.jpg
Skull of Smilosuchus gregorii in the American Museum of Natural History
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauromorpha
Clade: Archosauriformes
Order: Phytosauria
Family: Parasuchidae
Subfamily: Mystriosuchinae
Clade: Leptosuchomorpha
Stocker, 2010
Subgroups

Leptosuchomorpha is a clade of phytosaurs. It is a node-based taxon defined by Michelle R. Stocker in 2010 as the last common ancestor of Leptosuchus studeri and Pseudopalatus pristinus and all of its descendants. [1] A new definition was proposed by Andrew S. Jones and Richard J. Butler in 2018 as the last common ancestor and all descendants of Smilosuchus lithodendrorum , Leptosuchus studeri , and Machaeroprosopus pristinus to reflect the new interrelationships of Phytosauria they recovered. [2]

Phylogeny

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

Phytosauria

References

  1. 1 2 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. S2CID   129527672.
  2. Jones, Andrew S.; Butler, Richard J. (10 December 2018). "A new phylogenetic analysis of Phytosauria (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) with the application of continuous and geometric morphometric character coding". PeerJ. 6: e5901. doi: 10.7717/peerj.5901 . PMC   6292387 . PMID   30581656.