Leptopleuroninae is an extinct subfamily of procolophonid reptiles.[1] The oldest member of Leptopleuroninae is Phonodus dutoitorum from the Induan age of the Early Triassic.[2] It is the only procolophonid group that survived into the Late Triassic.[3]

Leptopleuroninae
Temporal range: EarlyLate Triassic
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Parareptilia
Order: Procolophonomorpha
Family: Procolophonidae
Subfamily: Leptopleuroninae
Ivakhnenko, 1979
Genera

Phylogeny edit

A cladogram showing relationships within Procolophonidae after Modesto et al., 2010:[2]

Procolophonidae

Below are two cladograms that follow phylogenetic analyses by Butler et al. (2023):[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Cisneros, J. C. (2008). "Phylogenetic relationships of procolophonid parareptiles with remarks on their geological record". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 6 (3): 345–366. doi:10.1017/S1477201907002350. S2CID 84468714.
  2. ^ a b Modesto, S.P.; Scott, D.M.; Botha-Brink, J.; Reisz, R.R. (2010). "A new and unusual procolophonid parareptile from the Lower Triassic Katberg Formation of South Africa". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (3): 715–723. Bibcode:2010JVPal..30..715M. doi:10.1080/02724631003758003. S2CID 84563475.
  3. ^ a b Butler, R. J.; Meade, L. E.; Cleary, T. J.; McWhirter, K. T.; Brown, E. E.; Kemp, T. S.; Benito, J.; Fraser, N. C. (2023). "Hwiccewyrm trispiculum gen. et sp. nov., a new leptopleuronine procolophonid from the Late Triassic of southwest England". The Anatomical Record. doi:10.1002/ar.25316. PMID 37735997.