Leptosuchomorpha

Leptosuchomorpha
Temporal range: Late Triassic
Skull of Smilosuchus gregorii in the American Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Phytosauria
Family: Phytosauridae
Node: †Leptosuchomorpha
Stocker, 2010

Leptosuchomorpha is a clade of phytosaurs. It is a node-based taxon defined as the last common ancestor of Leptosuchus studeri and Pseudopalatus pristinus and all of its descendants.[1]

Phylogeny

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

Phytosauria 

"Paleorhinus" scurriensis

Paleorhinus bransoni

"Paleorhinus" sawini


Phytosauridae

Brachysuchus megalodon

Angistorhinus

Rutiodon carolinensis

"Machaeroprosopus" zunii

Protome batalaria


Leptosuchomorpha

"Phytosaurus" doughtyi

TMM 31173-120

Leptosuchus crosbiensis

Leptosuchus studeri


Smilosuchus lithodendrorum

Smilosuchus adamanensis

Smilosuchus gregorii

Pravusuchus hortus


Pseudopalatinae

Pseudopalatus mccauleyi

Mystriosuchus westphali

Pseudopalatus pristinus












References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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.