Leptorrhamphus

Leptorrhamphus
Temporal range: Mid-Late Miocene
~11.6–7.2 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Crocodilia
Superfamily: Gavialoidea
Genus: Leptorrhamphus
Ambrosetti, 1890
Species
  • Leptorrhamphus entrerrianus Ambrosetti, 1890 (type)

Leptorrhamphus is an extinct monospecific genus of gavialoid crocodilian that lived during the Middle to Late Miocene in what is now Argentina. Fossils have been found in the formation then named Entrerriana Formation, in modern literature referred to as the Ituzaingó Formation. The type species is L. entrerrianus, named after the formation in 1890. It is now thought to be a nomen dubium.



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