Leptophractus

Leptophractus is an extinct genus of embolomere which is known from late Carboniferous coal mines near Linton, Ohio.[1][2]

Leptophractus
Temporal range: Pennsylvanian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Embolomeri
Family: Eogyrinidae
Genus: Leptophractus
Cope, 1873
Type species
Leptophractus obsoletus
Cope, 1873

References

  1. Cope, E.D. (1873). "On Some New Batrachia and Fishes from the Coal Measures of Linton, Ohio". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 25 (2): 340–343. JSTOR 4624343.
  2. Clack, Jennifer A. (9 September 2011). "A Carboniferous embolomere tail with supraneural radials". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (5): 1150–1153. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.595467. JSTOR 41407668.


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