Leptophractus
Leptophractus is an extinct genus of embolomere described from an Upper Carboniferous coal mine at Linton, Ohio. It probably represents a young growth interval, and is therefore a synonym, of Anthracosaurus lancifer, which was described much earlier from the same deposit at Linton.
| Leptophractus Temporal range: | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Embolomeri |
| Family: | †Eogyrinidae |
| Genus: | †Leptophractus Cope, 1873 |
| Type species | |
| †Leptophractus obsoletus Cope, 1873 | |
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