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Plateosaurus

Reptilia - Plateosauridae

Taxonomy
Plateosaurus was named by Meyer (1837). It is the type genus of Plateosauridae.

It was assigned to Sauria by Meyer (1837); to Pachypodes by Meyer (1845); to Dinosauria by Pictet (1853); to Harpagosauria by Haeckel (1866); to Teratosauridae by Cope (1871) and Cope (1875); to Squamati by Quenstedt (1882); to Megalosaurinidae by Blanckenhorn (1898); to Anchisauridae by Nopcsa (1901); to Zanclodontidae by Zittel (1890) and Huene (1902); to Theropoda by Broom (1915); to Theropoda by Winkler (1893) and Joleaud (1922); to Prosauropoda by Kuhn (1939) and Bakker and Galton (1974); to Anchisauridae by Galton (1973) and Carroll (1988); to Sauropodomorpha by Benton (1990) and Yates (2003); to Sauropodomorpha by Xing et al. (2015); and to Plateosauridae by Marsh (1895), Marsh (1896), Huene (1908), Huene (1909), von Zittel (1911), Tornier (1913), Fraas (1913), Huene (1914), Fraas (1914), Huene (1914), Van Hoepen (1920), Lull (1924), Haughton (1924), Nopcsa (1928), Romer (1956), Tatarinov (1964), Romer (1966), Charig (1967), Bonaparte (1969), Steel (1970), Swinton (1970), Kuhn (1971), Bonaparte (1973), Galton (1976), Bonaparte (1978), Anderson and Cruickshank (1978), Heerden (1979), Benton (1979), McIntosh (1981), Battail (1986), Padian (1997), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Sereno (1999), Bandyopadhyay (1999), Galton (2001), Moser (2003), Galton and Upchurch (2004), Upchurch et al. (2007), Smith and Pol (2007), Martínez (2009), Yates (2010), Apaldetti et al. (2011), Novas et al. (2011), Otero and Pol (2013), Apaldetti et al. (2013), McPhee et al. (2015) and Beccari et al. (2021).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1837Plateosaurus Meyer
1845Plateosaurus Meyer p. 281
1846Platysaurus Agassiz
1853Plateosaurus Pictet p. 474
1866Plateosaurus Haeckel p. CXXXVI
1871Plateosaurus Cope p. 234
1875Plateosaurus Cope p. 13
1882Plateosaurus Quenstedt p. 180
1890Plateosaurus Zittel p. 721
1893Plateosaurus Winkler p. 107
1895Plateosaurus Marsh
1896Plateosaurus Marsh p. 239
1898Plateosaurus Blanckenhorn p. 71
1901Plataeosaurus Nopcsa p. 197
1902Plateosaurus Huene
1905Plateosaurus quenstedti Huene p. 348
1905Plateosaurus reinigeri Huene p. 348
1905Sellosaurus Huene p. 348
1908Plateosaurus reinigeri Huene p. 8 figs. 1-9
1908Plateosaurus quenstedti Huene p. 29 figs. 10-16
1908Plateosaurus Huene p. 251
1909Plateosaurus Huene p. 14
1909Sellosaurus Huene p. 14
1910Plateosaurus reinigeri Hay p. 12
1910Plateosaurus quenstedti Hay p. 20
1911Plateosaurus von Zittel p. 279
1911Sellosaurus von Zittel p. 279
1913Plateosaurus Fraas p. 1100
1913Plateosaurus reinigeri Fraas p. 1100
1913Sellosaurus Fraas p. 1100
1913Plateosaurus Tornier p. 368
1913Plateosaurus reinigeri Tornier p. 368
1914Plateosaurus Fraas p. 131
1914Plateosaurus reinigeri Fraas p. 131
1914Sellosaurus Fraas p. 131
1914Plateosaurus reinigeri Hennig p. 418
1914Sellosaurus Huene p. 14
1914Plateosaurus Huene p. 15
1914Plateosaurus quenstedti Huene p. 15
1914Plateosaurus reinigeri Huene p. 15
1914Plateosaurus Huene p. 156
1914Sellosaurus Huene p. 156
1915Plateosaurus Broom p. 162
1915Plateosaurus reinigeri Broom p. 164
1915Plateosaurus quenstedti Huene p. 12
1920Plateosaurus reinigeri Van Hoepen p. 89
1920Plateosaurus Van Hoepen p. 102
1920Plateosaurus reinigeri Van Hoepen p. 102
1920Plateosaurus quenstedti Van Hoepen p. 118
1922Plateosaurus Joleaud p. 59
1924Plateosaurus Haughton
1924Plateosaurus Lull p. 229
1928Plateosaurus Nopcsa p. 183
1928Sellosaurus Nopcsa p. 183
1933Plateosaurus reingeri Gilmore p. 35
1933Plateosaurus reinigeri Seemann p. 153
1933Plateosaurus quenstedti Seemann p. 154
1935Plateosaurus quenstedti Müller-Stoll p. 28
1938Plateosaurus quenstedti Schmidt p. 69
1938Plateosaurus reinigeri Schmidt p. 125
1939Plateosaurus Kuhn p. 64
1939Plateosaurus quenstedti Kuhn p. 65
1956Plateosaurus Romer p. 618
1964Plateosaurus Tatarinov p. 542
1966Plateosaurus Romer p. 370
1966Plateosaurus quenstedti Young p. 66
1967Plateosaurus Charig p. 712
1969Plateosaurus Bonaparte p. 475
1970Plateosaurus reinegeri Demathieu p. 158
1970Plateosaurus quenstedti Fischer p. 197
1970Gresslyosaurus reinigeri Steel p. 53
1970Plateosaurus Steel p. 54
1970Plateosaurus quenstedti Steel p. 56
1970Plateosaurus Swinton p. 160
1971Plateosaurus Kuhn p. 16
1971Plateosaurus quenstedti Kuhn p. 16
1971Plateosaurus reinigeri Kuhn p. 16
1973Plateosaurus Bonaparte p. 115
1973Plateosaurus Galton p. 246
1974Plateosaurus Bakker and Galton p. 170
1976Plateosaurus Galton p. 89
1978Plateosaurus Anderson and Cruickshank p. 31
1978Plateosaurus Bonaparte p. 319
1978Plateosaurus quenstedti Bonaparte p. 320 fig. 146
1979Plateosaurus Benton p. 143
1979Plateosaurus Heerden
1981Plateosaurus McIntosh p. 11
1985Sellosaurus Galton
1986Plateosaurus Battail p. 49
1988Plateosaurus Carroll
1988Sellosaurus Carroll
1990Plateosaurus Benton p. 23
1997Plateosaurus Padian p. 532
1997Plateosaurus Sereno p. 451
1998Plateosaurus Sereno p. 63
1998Sellosaurus Sereno p. 71 fig. 7
1999Plateosaurus Bandyopadhyay p. 311
1999Plateosaurus Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2
1999Sellosaurus Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2
2001Plateosaurus Galton p. 490
2003Plateosaurus Moser
2003Plateosaurus Yates p. 331
2004Plateosaurus Galton and Upchurch p. 235 fig. 12.11
2004Sellosaurus Galton and Upchurch p. 236 fig. 12.11
2007Plateosaurus Smith and Pol p. 670 fig. 7
2007Plateosaurus Upchurch et al. p. 62 fig. 3
2009Plateosaurus Martínez p. 162 fig. 22
2010Plateosaurus Yates p. 750
2011Plateosaurus Apaldetti et al. p. 16 fig. 13
2011Plateosaurus Novas et al. p. 341 fig. 4
2013Plateosaurus Apaldetti et al.
2013Plateosaurus Otero and Pol
2015Plateosaurus McPhee et al. p. 19 fig. 12
2015Plateosaurus Xing et al.
2021Plateosaurus Beccari et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
RankNameAuthor
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Eusaurischia
—Sauropodomorpha(Huene 1932)
familyPlateosauridae
genusPlateosaurus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Plateosaurus Meyer 1837
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†Plateosaurus elizae Sauvage 1907
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Invalid names: Plateosaurus longiceps Jaekel 1913 [synonym]
†Plateosaurus gracilis Huene 1905
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Invalid names: Thecodontosaurus hermannianus Huene 1905 [synonym]
†Plateosaurus ingens Rütimeyer 1856
Invalid names: Plateosaurus quenstedti Huene 1905 [nomen dubium], Plateosaurus reinigeri Huene 1905 [nomen dubium], Platysaurus Agassiz 1846 [synonym], Sellosaurus Huene 1905 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Entire body: yesg
Maximum body mass: 3000 kgg
Minimum body mass: 100 kgg
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: herbivoreg
Created: 2005-08-24 13:32:14
Modified: 2009-01-03 23:12:54
Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Peczkis 1995, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Alaunian to the top of the Hettangian or 215.56000 to 199.30000 Ma

Collections (31 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Triassic237.0 - 201.4Germany (Niedersachsen) P. sp. (149732)
Norian228.0 - 208.5Germany (Baden-Wurttemberg) P. gracilis (68038) Thecodontosaurus hermannianus, Teratosaurus suevicus (47785)
Norian228.0 - 208.5Argentina (Santa Cruz) P. sp. (145209)
Norian228.0 - 208.5France (Jura) Dimodosaurus poligniensis (48639) Gresslyosaurus plieningeri (25836) P. sp. (48643)
Norian228.0 - 208.5Switzerland (Schaffhausen) P. sp. (47806)
Norian228.0 - 208.5Germany (Baden-Württemberg) P. reinigeri (48689) P. sp., P. trossingensis, P. erlenbergiensis, P. sp., P. quenstedti (22683) Sellosaurus gracilis (105831)
Norian228.0 - 208.5Germany (Bayern) P. engelhardti (48683) P. sp. (75758 97818 139478)
Norian228.0 - 208.5Switzerland (Aargau) P. sp. (22680 227790)
Norian228.0 - 208.5Greenland P. engelhardti (26998)
Norian - Rhaetian228.0 - 201.3South Africa (Eastern Cape) P. sp. (106563)
Alaunian215.56 - 212.0Germany (Baden-Württemberg) Sellosaurus gracilis (47800)
Rhaetian208.5 - 201.3North Atlantic P. sp. (64316)
Rhaetian208.5 - 201.3United Kingdom (England) P. sp. (53829)
Rhaetian208.5 - 201.3France (Champagne-Ardennes) Thecodontosaurus elisae (139922)
Rhaetian208.5 - 201.3France (Champagne-Ardenne) Thecodontosaurus elisae (140023)
Rhaetian208.5 - 201.3Germany (Niedersachsen) Zanclodon laevis (55321)
Rhaetian208.5 - 201.3Germany (Baden-Württemberg) P. quenstedti (48687) P. sp. (22682) Zanclodon laevis (48690)
Rhaetian208.5 - 201.3France (Lorraine) P. sp. (36106)
Rhaetian208.5 - 201.3Germany (Sachsen-Anhalt) P. sp. (22684)
Hettangian201.3 - 199.3Germany (Bayern) P. sp. (191140)