Leontosaurus Temporal range:
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Holotype skull | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | † Gorgonopsia |
Family: | † Gorgonopsidae |
Tribe: | † Rubidgeini |
Genus: | † Leontosaurus |
Type species | |
Leontosaurus vanderhorsti Broom & George 1950
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Leontosaurus is an extinct genus of non- mammalian synapsids from the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone, Balfour Formation of South Africa. It contains the single species L. vanderhorsti. [1]