Leptorrhamphus
| Leptorrhamphus Temporal range: Pliocene | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Crocodilia |
| Superfamily: | Gavialoidea |
| Genus: | Leptorrhamphus Ambrosetti, 1890 |
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Leptorrhamphus is an extinct genus of gavialoid crocodilian that lived during the Pliocene epoch in what is now Argentina. The type species is L. entrerrianus, named in 1890.[1] It is now thought to be a nomen dubium.
References
- ↑ Camp, C. L., Taylor, D. N. and Welles, S. P., eds. (1942) Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates 1934-1938. Geological Society of America Special Papers, Number 42.
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