Name:
Leptopleuron.
Phonetic: Lep-to-plu-ron.
Named By: Richard Owen - 1851.
Synonyms: Telerpeton elginense.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Procolophonomorpha, Procolophonidae.
Species: L. lacertinum
(type).
Diet: Uncertain but possibly herbivorous given that
similar relatives in the late Triassic were more herbivorous.
Size: About 40 centimetres long.
Known locations: Scotland - Lossiemouth
Sandstone Formation.
Time period: Carnian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Holotype an almost complete
individual. At least one another specimen known.
Leptopleuron was a genus or procolophonid reptile that lived in Scotland during the Late Triassic. The exact diet of Leptopleuron is uncertain, though procolophonids in the late Triassic seem to be more herbivorous than earlier procolophonids were more insectivorous.
Further reading
- The braincase structure of Leptopleuron lacertinum
Owen
(Parareptilia: Procolophonidae). - Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology 20 (1): 21–30. - Patrick S. Spencer -
2000.
- Osteology of Leptopleuron lacertinum Owen, a procolophonoid
parareptile from the Upper Triassic of Scotland, with remarks on
ontogeny, ecology and affinities. - Earth and Environmental Science
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 101 (1): 1–25. - Laura
S�il� - 2010.