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
Subgroups

See text.

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 2 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.
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